Legal battle
In 2009, Montagnier became involved in a legal battle with inventor Bruno Robert over the intellectual property rights to these techniques. Robert, who had previously researched "digital biology" with Jacques Benveniste, approached Montagnier in May 2005 regarding his work on EMS. In November 2005, Robert registered a patent for the process of homing in on a "biochemical element presenting a biological activity through the analysis of low-frequency electromagnetic signals." A month later, INPI, France's patents body, received a request for the same patent from Montagnier. Montagnier took Robert to court, claiming that he had intellectual property rights over this process. However, Robert's lawyer alleged that Montagnier had already admitted that he had not come up with the discovery, as he had signed a contract to use Robert's technique in 2005. In response, Montagnier's lawyer said the pair had only signed a "protocol agreement" which was not legally binding. In July 2009, the court ruled that Robert's 2005 patent application was 'fraudulent', because it had subtracted all of Montagnier's contribution, which the court estimated at 50%.Adapted from the Wikipedia article Luc Montagnier, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
