[paborden]

Question: what's the story with the processes Best Buy developed that were pirated from TechForward? Does this mean they can't use them? Or can they? How does one prevent Best Buy from re-developing something similar going forward? After all, it won't take long for BB to make back their $27 million "investment."

[unreal37]

They discontinued the program after 18 months.

[recoiledsnake]

Okay that makes a lot of sense now. I was wondering why there was nothing about a high ongoing royalty rate mentioned in the article. If even trivial patents can get ~3.5% on revenues, such blatant theft of actual files and ideas should get substantially more.