John, now 78, noticed his new invention had other uses too – and could be harnessed by the offshore industry. Court papers show that, in the early months of the deal in 2017, Coretrax sold “around £71,000” worth of Uptake. Court papers state: “Coretrax had initially reported that Uptake had been well received and others were seeking to emulate it. In court papers, Mr Tariq said: “Reasonable business people were most unlikely to contract to allow a wrongdoing party to benefit from its own wrongful acts. “When Coretrax stopped supplying Uptake to its customers, that also caused others in the industry to begin to lose confidence in it.