Fortunately, SimiD's CEO understood that he had a weak case. We finally arrived at a fairly painless settlement, but in the meantime our small company had to eat huge legal expenses, and we wasted a lot of time preparing our defense. The only silver lining was that SimiDMail was finally out of our hair.

Lesson learned: Justice may be blind, but it can also be mean, expensive, and slow. And it doesn't care a whit about right and wrong.