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Williama Bozeman was stunned was stunned when the government's central bank in 2017 went to war with him "out of nowhere" by filing a federal lawsuit and two challenges to his patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Associated Press/File)
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This April 18,1946 file photo shows Montreal Royals Jackie Robinson. The quaint Montreal duplex that served as sanctuary to the Robinsons during the early part of his career is being recognized by the U.S. government. That chapter in American civil rights will be celebrated Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 when U.S. diplomats unveil a commemorative plaque at the apartment the couple called home in the summer of 1946. (AP Photo/John J. Lent)
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Iranian opposition leaders Mahdi Karroubi, right, and Mir Hossein Mousavi meet in Tehran on Oct. 10, 2009. A reformist website reported Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, that the two leaders and their wives -- who had been under house arrest -- have been moved to a prison in Tehran. (AP Photo, File)
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U.N. Human Rights Council members follow a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. The 27-nation bloc agreed an arms embargo, asset freeze and visa ban against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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President Obama speaks during a bi-partisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Anti-government protesters wave the Bahraini flag as they march past the Embassy of Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, in the capital of Manama, Bahrain. Thousands of protesters streamed through Bahrain's diplomatic area and other sites, chanting against the regime and rejecting the king's appeals for talks to end the tiny Gulf nation's nearly 2-week-old crisis. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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A Libyan boy flashing a "V" sign sits on the barrel of a destroyed army tank as he and other youths celebrate the freedom of the Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. The United States pressed its European allies on Monday to set tough sanctions on the Libyan government, while doubts emerged about the feasibility of a proposed no-fly zone to prevent Moammar Gadhafi's regime from launching aerial attacks against protesters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Anti-government forces show off their weapons in the main square in Az Zawiya, west of Tripoli, on Sunday. Hundreds prepare to repel an offensive by troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. (Associated Press)
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President Obama meets Friday with Democratic governors in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi at his desert base outside Sirte, south of Tripoli, Libya, in May 2007. (AP Photo)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to make clear within two weeks whether he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. If so, he will be one of the first to make it official. (Associated Press)
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Abortion doctor-turned-pro-life activist Dr. Bernard Nathanson, seen here in February 2000, died last week at 84. (The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announces a national unity government in Tunis, Tunisia, on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)
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** File ** Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny addresses party members at the Burlington Hotel on Dublin on Feb. 26, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Chinese police ask an Associated Press cameraman to leave the area near the shopping street of Wangfujing in Beijing on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. Large numbers of police and the use of new tactics such as shrill whistles and street cleaners squelched any overt protests in China after calls for more peaceful gatherings modeled on recent democratic movements in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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The U.N. Security Council meets on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, to consider new sanctions against Libya to halt a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but members disagreed over a proposal to refer Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and top aides to an international war crimes tribunal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Rebels opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi celebrate the freedom of the Libyan city of Benghazi on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. President Obama has called on Col. Gadhafi to relinquish power immediately, saying he has lost the legitimacy to rule with his violent crackdown on his own people. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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**FILE** South Korean activists and defectors from North Korea release balloons with the words "Overthrow Kim Jong-il Dictatorship" in Korean and with leaflets condemning the North Korean leader during a rally at the Imjingak pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, on Feb. 16, the North's national holiday celebrating Mr. Kim's birthday. (Associated Press)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon greets Libya's U.N. ambassador, Mohamed Shalgham, after a meeting of the Security Council at the United Nations in New York on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Tens of thousands of Bahraini anti-government protesters converge on the Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
