On the third day after we returned to Baycrest, Lane Group made the first move.
Carter Tech received a patent infringement warning.
They claimed our next-generation enterprise security system infringed on a core algorithm patent they'd registered 2 years earlier. They demanded that we stop selling it immediately and pay damages.
The timing was far too convenient.
After reading the letter, my first thought was Richard.
When Alex arrived at my company with his legal team, I was in the conference room picking apart the other side's technical explanation.
He draped his jacket over a chair and took the documents from me.
"Look at the third page," I said. "There's something wrong with the parameter names."
He scanned it. "That abbreviation is only used inside your company."
I looked up
