He was responding to a call from Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to state whether he is still a director of the company that was established to market and sell the G-Pan and Percussive Harmonic Instrument - the PHI Pan.
Ramlogan raised the issue of Regrello's directorship at a news conference last week when he announced that government is taking legal action against four people - Professor Brian Copeland, Marcelle Byron, Philip Earl and Keith Maynard - with respect to the intellectual property rights and ownership of the PHI Pan.
In a media statement Tuesday, Regrello confirmed that he was a director of the company but resigned to take up a cabinet post.
"By letter dated December 6th 2007, I tendered my resignation from the company, Panadigm, stating my success at the polls and appointment to a position in Government as the reason. I continued to lend support due to my interest in this project," Regrello stated.
He added that he has never received any remuneration from the company and that to the best of his knowledge the company has not sold any G-Pans.
Ramlogan told reporters last week the government will try to recover any income that may have been lost to the people of Trinidad and Tobago by what Ramlogan said was the illegal assertion of their ownership of intellectual propriety rights to the PHI Pan.
Ramlogan said Copeland had registered the patent for the instrument in his name, although the Government of Trinidad and Tobago paid for the project.
The AG said the G-Pan and the PHI should have been patented and registered in the name of the Government and all intellectual and property rights and profits should belong to the Government.
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