I was going to ask for your (grellas) opinion on the case, but I guess it's in the title ... I remember a similar story with EDA software, back in 2000 or so,

I was going to ask for your (grellas) opinion on the case, but I guess it's in the title ... I remember a similar story with EDA software, back in 2000 or so, with Cadence's code in Avanti products. Silvaco is a smaller company. I suppose the point of the suits is that the first baker wanted the customers to buy his pies, or be paid for the pies they should have bought from him. The back story linked ( http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202447616842 http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?i... ) said that "Silvaco sued 12 semiconductor companies in 2003 and 2004 that bought CSI software" and seven settled. Don't know how harsh the terms asked were, but it might have gone the other way - apparently the big guys decided it was worth fighting.