Nearly a year ago I delivered a giant research book to Greg Fischer. It was essentially an outline of issues that would come to haunt him in the then-pending mayoral race.

He never took me seriously, apparently, and now the research chickens are coming home to roost.

He cannot say I didn’t give him ample time to address these matters with me.

Last week I questioned Greg Fischer’s proclaimed “invention” – a fancy ice machine. You can read all about that by clicking here:

According to court documents, SerVend Distributors, Inc. (Jerry Landers) invented the ice machine. Then George Fischer (Greg’s dad) purchased the company. Greg’s name does appear as a co-inventor – not inventor – on U.S. Patent No. 4,641,763, a dispensing apparatus. And it appears his name was appended to the original patent. But for the 13 other patents SerVend holds for the ice dispenser? Fischer’s name doesn’t appear as an inventor. Jerry Landers’ does.

To further question Fischer’s claim that he invented an ice dispenser, let’s look to a February 1982 lawsuit filed by EPI Corporation against SerVend International, Inc.

Excerpt:

3. The plaintiff and a predecessor corporation to the defendant, SerVend Distributors, Inc., an Indiana corporation, on march 16, 1977 entered into a Purchase Agreement wherein plaintiff acquired various rights and assets with respect to SerVend Distributors, Inc., one of which was to acquire an ownership interest in U.S. Patent No. 3,858,765, which was owned by SerVend Distributors, Inc.

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4. That SerVend Distributors, Inc. the predecessor corporation of the defendant, did at all times pertinent hereto have and exercised ownership and good title to and exclusive rights to manufacture and market an ice dispenser machine under U.S. Patent No. 3,858,765.

5. That the defendant did by contract and other legal processes, the details of which are unknown to plaintiff, acquire the assets and liabilities of SerVend Distributors, Inc. Further, defendant is and has been since said acquisition, manufacturing an ice dispenser machine as described in and pursuant to the rights granted by the U.S. Patent No. 3,858,765 and is selling said products and machines to the public or others.

What was that, again, about Fischer inventing an ice machine?

A third-party complaint was eventually filed by EPI Corporation against SerVend International, Inc. and Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Jeffersonville, Indiana that sheds a bit more light on whether or not Greg was the “inventor” of that ice machine:

2. That on May 30, 1980, Citizens Bank and Trust Company sold assets of Servend Distributors, Inc., to George Fischer, owner and President of Defendant, Servend International, Inc.

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4. That George Fischer formed Servend International, Inc., a Kentucky Corporation, in order to use said assets.

So those rumors about Greg’s dad buying the company and then passing it off to him? Check.

The gossip that Greg didn’t really invent that ice machine? Check and check.

You can expect more where this came from. And I’m not even talking about the thousands he has given to Republicans like Anne Northup. His family’s strong Republican ties. Or his long-held practice of union busting.