A Napier born-and-raised hypnotherapist has come home to see his ailing mum and start a new business after a decade in the United States, followed closely by a lawsuit alleging breach of copyright on his websites in North America.
In what may be developing as a classic David v Goliath dispute, former Tamatea High School student Andrew Dobson says he learned of the action by the University of Minnesota and testing company NCS Pearson only on Wednesday when contacted by a US journalist.
He's since received from the reporter the 22-page claim which seeks costs and settlement.
It's not a new issue, but Mr Dobson, a 43-year-old who was at high school in Napier in the mid-1980s, says he thought he'd seen the back of it after accepting the claimants held the copyright and having the offending material removed from his websites.
In St Paul, Minnesota, university attorney Stuart Hemphill has been reported as saying the suit was filed to ensure the websites do not re-post the material, which is a widely-used psychological test.