> >Since he has not paid for the services that you provided,
> >he should not own the rights to that code or any other work
> >that you have done.  This would probally mean that you still
> >own the rights to it

As I understand it, unless you sign over copyright to s/w and/or
h/w it remains yours. You could make your own product if

- there was no agreement that he had exclusive usage

- you had not signed a confidentiality agreement

I had a similar situation a few years ago. Put in hundreds of
hours work on a product, receiving a token payment on the
understanding that when the project was complete I would
receive my riches from sales. Of course, it never happened,
despite my best efforts to gee up the process. Others also
got hurt, including the guy who made up 10 SMT boards. As
far as I know, the inventor of the product is dead (he looked
at least 500 years old when we started), although I haven't
bothered to get in touch so as not to get all frustrated again

I have all original material and what I think is the cheapest
and most efficient way to do it. I could sue his ass (if he's
not metabolically challenged that is), but that would mean
so much work and raking up it hardly seems worth it. As
Vasile said, sometimes you just have to grin and bear it
and value the learning experience. Be nice to get paid for
it too of course

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