The example I would point to is the one involving American Superconductor and Sinovel [1][2]

American Superconductor was working with Sinovel on wind turbines. They made the software and Sinovel made the physical product. Sinovel decided they wanted to cut out American Superconductor so they paid an employee $1.7 million to leak to them the source code. After which they cut them off. To add insult to injury Sinovel then sold these wind turbines back to the state where American Superconductor is located.

Sinovel did not even attempt to change the software which is actually how they first got caught. They were inspecting a wind turbine and realized it was running an unreleased version of their software.

There was even an incident last year of an idea for a new selfie stick getting stolen before they even were done with their kickstarter campaign.[3]

In both cases the original creators who did innovate and put time into designing something got cut out. Is that fair?

[1]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-great-brain-robbery-c... [2]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/business/energy-environmen... [3]https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-...