The claim against Dataquill, a Sarnian company that makes money from patents that it owns, is being brought by specialist consultant Paul Marshall.
In papers lodged with the court, Mr Marshall alleges that his services as a consultant were engaged by Dataquill in various licensing disputes between Dataquill and global companies such as Apple and Chinese telecommunications corporation ZTE.
The sums Mr Marshall claims to be owed for alleged contract work in the US, which Dataquill denies ever took place, amount to more than $3 million. Further claims against Dataquill for unpaid UK-based contract work have also been submitted by Mr Marshall, totalling £255,000.
In response, Dataquill director John Donnelly has admitted that Mr Marshall was retained for a fee of £30,000, which has not yet been paid, on a contract that concluded in November 2014. However, Mr Donnelly denies that it was ‘an express or implied term of the contract’ that any further payment would be due to Mr Marshall.
Mr Marshall has submitted a total of eight invoices for what he considers to be the outstanding balance of fees owed to him.
But Mr Donnelly has said that the invoices, which were all dated on the same day in January 2018, were falsely created in order to extract money from him.
The case continues.
