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The past 10 years, Swedish inventor Håkan Lans’ life has been spent on a complicated U.S. legal dispute concerning the patent on colour computer graphics and his automatic identification system, AIS.

Several companies, including Compaq, Gateway and Hewlett Packard had not paid royalties, and allegedly infringed on the patent. Håkan Lans sued the companies for patent infringement. However, he lost the case.

Now a Swedish techsite reveals that the whistleblower website WikiLeaks has access to secret documents that support Håkan Lans’ case. "I can only confirm that there are rumors in Sweden that there are documents on Wikileaks that concern me", the inventor told NyTeknik.

According to an unnamed source, the documents were published as a encrypted file together with "The Afghan War Diary 2004-2010", but was later removed. The removed file was called the Insurance file, named "insurance.aes256".

The content of the documents are still unknown, but NyTeknik wrote they may concern a conspiracy among powerful U.S. decision-makers against Håkan Lans.

Håkan Lans is the designer of a tracking system which makes use of a Self-Organized Time Division Multiple Access (STDMA) datalink, currently in use in Automatic Identification System (AIS). His patented inventions are also a color graphics processor, Data processing system and apparatus for color graphics display.

Summary of the legal dispute at The 271 Patent Blog.