Presumably the goal would be to have the designer of the stained glass dome receive some kind of royalty for its use in the new building. And so the losses from not having it licensed correctly would be whatever those fees would be.

> As a result, I had financial expenses that I did not intend to have. I spent a lot of time doing research, analyzing drawings and different information. I did put an effort to protect my intellectual property and integrity of my original design. Above all, I experienced a lot of negative emotions while I was working on this case.

> Consequently, I stopped working on all design projects developments for all my current clients that I was under the contract with. The reason was that stressed and depressed I could not provide the quality design services to my clients as I usually do. Sadly, four months of my professional life were taken away. The case has not been fully resolved.

So, rather than getting the royalties he was presumably owed under a license, he instead became so stressed and financially burdened that he had to stop work entirely.

Ironically, it seems like he would have come away with more money if he had done nothing at all.