Very sad, if indeed it's JLR that forced them to stop 'because we can & we've got more legal budget' then they should be ashamed, it not as if Suffolk pinch any customers
They could well pinch some customers from the "continuation" cars that JLR make. And there is the legal idea that you cant half be a virgin ie ignore Suffolk and not ignore the Chinese companies doing the same thing. A licence would have been the sensible approach since it would give JLR control over the areas in which Suffolk copied JLR's IP.