United States v. Orr

O’BRIEN, Circuit Judge.

For over twenty years, William Orr was a self-taught inventor and entrepreneur in the fuel additives industry. In 1991, he incorporated Octane International (Octane) to further develop his alternative fuel combination, to provide capital for the costs of prosecuting and maintaining his various foreign alternative fuel patents, and to obtain approval of his United States patent application.1 From 1991 through 2002, Orr and his business associates raised over 1.3 million dollars from Octane’s investors. In October 2000, Orr’s promotion of his fuel technology in Washington…