John:

You may have to consider something here. If you left your product's MCU unprotected then the other party could have freely read out the code. It is very likely that they did hex dumps and looked at the code for incriminating evidence such as text strings and the like and simply blotted them out. If so you may really be out of luck.


Seems to me that your challenge is to work _really_ hard at beating your competition at their own game. Spend the money that you would have on lawers and lawsuit fees instead on engineering development on another version of the product that you can sell for 25 to 33% of the original price. Undercut the ripper-offer and beat them out. If they truly copied your code they will have difficulty cloning the product to the cheaper version. Then spend some money on another product that is so convincingly better that people will have to have it. In this latter case a large portion of the money goes to marketing instead of lawyers.

Michael Karas