@Mongo ...Re: "the court ruled that reverse engineering was protected"
If reverse engineering done properly, then it would be ok.
It means that you have a clean room where you transcribe your notes about the product you're reverse engineering and then hand them to engineers to build a net new product from your notes.
Its when you break this wall and the net new code wasn't developed cleanly, you run in to issues.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
