No there is not, one example would be the yellow tab EA cartridges for the Sega Genesis. EA reverse engineered the Genesis to get around the high licensing cost and Sega knew that they wouldn't be able to challenge this in court.
There you'll also find another case where Sega lost in court against similar reverse engineering done by Accolade to run their games on the Genesis without a license from Sega: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade