We engaged two lawyers in Los Angeles, Bill Poms and David Oldenkamp. I had worked long together with David thereby becoming aware of his skill so I was confident that the dispute could be settled. However, you never know when jurisdiction is practiced in the U.S. I was called to interrogations in Washington (two times), to Los Angeles and to the American embassy in Stockholm. I was also called to the American embassy in Tokyo to sign documents related to the upcoming trial since I was there for an extended period of time in another business. During this discovery period of the trial, several others were contacted, among them Don Olson at Shell to request him to participate in a deposition. Three attorneys showed up at Shell's Westhollow Research Center for the deposition. Two represented our side of the litigation, and the third was a female assistant to the ITC judge. She requested Olson to educate her on the science and technology of FIA so that she could in turn educate the judge. I grew up with black and white television and one favorite program was Perry Mason. Very often you could see witnesses asked to “tell the truth and nothing but the truth”. In 1984 it became my turn to do exactly this in an American court room. The ITC trial versus Bifok (and Tecator and Pernovo) started in January 1984 and lasted almost three weeks. We had luckily enough asked for re-examination of the Stewart patent and this saved us. The trial was based on the original claims and they were not any longer valid from a legal point of view. The case was dismissed with five vs four votes.
