It was hoped that the recent patent revisions had expanded to be internatiinal in scope. IP theft will always exist to some degree though. If the POET IP is tough for foreign nefarious third parties to figure out, it will only slow them down...and that is supposedly with no leaks from POET partners or from within the company itself. Could take some time (years?) before any catastrophic breech, at least to cause any significant damage to the bottom line.

As we all know, companies like Apple suffer losses due to IP pilfering but chalks it up to "the cost of doing business" in the modern world.

Sure keeps the legal system active dealing with it all.