"Court case is the appeal hearing on Jan 16th to determine whether to allow seo the right to admit prior art evidence declined in the earlier hearing and then to move to the outstanding issues which could be affected by the former."
SEO didn't even know that this "evidence" existed until they found it by chance well after the first CC. Therefore, they cannot claim to have been working on developing their own product from it. Their intention was clear - to break the confidentiality agreement by stealing something that they had been entrusted with. They have been denied the right to introduce it once, it will be highly unlikely that the original decision will be overturned. They are facing a hefty fine & have succeeded in doing nothing more than significantly increasing the costs that they are going to have to pay. They are not insured for the costs, and will undoubtedly have to place more shares on the market to pay them. This is going to be extremely painful for SEO & their shareholders. It's the beginning of the end & the share price will be well under 10p by the end of January. Thats not wild speculation, it is an absolute certainty.