I used to work for a chip design company. They would get samples of competitive product and do competitive analysis and also see if they might be copying your t

I used to work for a chip design company. They would get samples of competitive product and do competitive analysis and also see if they might be copying your technology. Once we had licensed a technology to another company for inclusion in specific products with some royalties. At some point they terminated that relationship saying they are no longer using the technology. We found that was not true a bit later and a lawsuit was initiated.