[jpdoctor]

> The Company might well become very cautious about trying to redevelop the technology, precisely because of the NDA.

I seriously doubt it.

> In a somewhat-similar situation in the mid-1990s, Rockwell International got tagged by a jury for almost $58 million for breach of an NDA concerning circuitry for improving data transmission rates over analog cell phones.

What fraction of revenue was that? For a semi firm, that sounds like small-cost-of-doing-business when compared to cell-phone revenues.