Kleiman, on behalf of Dave’s estate, sued Wright in a Florida court for allegedly stealing his brother’s fair share of intellectual property the pair supposedly developed together (including the Bitcoin IP, the plaintiffs claimed) and bitcoins they were said to have mined jointly. Kleiman said the two created a business entity – W&K Info Defense Research – to develop and mine bitcoin, but Wright’s attorneys attempted to convince the jury the entity was a failed attempt by Dave and Wright’s ex-wife to get government contracts for software development.
