PA firefighter sues attorneys over failure to secure patent application

HOUSTON – A Port Arthur firefighter claims two Harris County attorneys failed to follow through on his application for a patent, recent court documents say.

According to a lawsuit filed May 11 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, William E. Johnson, Jacob S. Matthis and The Matthews Law Firm P.L.L.C. negligently represented Scott Wonders in his effort to patent a device he invented almost nine years ago that would “increase the efficiency of any compressed air recharge system to maximize recharges.”