Aye, very interesting. I am especially botherd by this segment, "You should further consider the first to file countries where prior use is irrelevant. My client is in the process of filing in numerous civil law countries such as Japan where whining about first to use is of no moment."

I call bs on the 'my client' part as it is fairly obvious from what research we have been able to do so far that it is all him, him and him and a few friends.
I wonder what his intentions are though, that is the disturbing part. I would assume they are not good by any stretch from that reply you received.
The only comfort I saw is that it looks like even he knows that USA is 'first to use' so he will not win that trademark. But, how many of them will he get, and in what countries and what could be the negative ramifications to the community?