"Guys, who can tell me what exactly happened?" Dean, who had rushed back from Virginia overnight, gathered all the senior executives of Byte Software at the first opportunity.
Chief Executive Officer Joe Scalcini, Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Trebik, Chief Financial Officer Ross Tano, and two directors from Morgan Tailer and Mayfield.
Together with the board, a total of nine senior executives gathered in the office of Byte Software. When Dean pushed the door open and entered, he found everyone with a serious expression on their faces.
"Dean, we're in trouble," David Morgentaler pushed a lawyer's notice in front of him.
"Honestly, it came later than I expected," Dean said, still not having read the content, but the formal layout of the document oddly relaxed his mood.
"I thought they would have been mailed to us as soon as the 'San Francisco Chronicle' published the news about our collaboration with 3Com. It seems now that our opponents are a bit sluggish in their response."
