English to Romanian Law/Patents Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright

Even if an equitable argument could be made that the statute of limitations could not run against a claim holder residing against his will in a communist country, there is the fact that both X and your brother each inherited one third of your father's claim upon his death and they were not residing in communist countries at that time or since. There was no impediment to their havinf proceeded earlies with a patent infringement claim.