The Gray Institute sent NexMind a cease-and-desist letter under A.G.'s name.
Keller called less than 30 minutes later.
"Evelyn, what did you take from my study?"
I stared at the 83-percent overlap on my screen and almost laughed.
"It was my study."
"A.G. claims the diagrams in our patent application belong to her. Did you send her confidential company material?"
Even now, Keller believed he was the victim.
"I wrote the draft."
Silence filled the line.
"I know you can write a patch," he said at last. "But you couldn't have designed that framework by yourself. Did A.G. help you?"
"No one helped me."
"If you really have access to her, then clear up this misunderstanding."
"Filing someone else's work as your own patent isn't a misunderstanding. It's theft."
Under pressure, he fina
