Reminds me of a story: The Soviet Union was well-known for copying computer designs, including CPUs, from the West. While the scale of this cloning program was not entirely understood by the West during the Soviet era, it became well known that a good deal of pirating was going on, and one of their main targets was DEC. It's also worth mentioning that an entire chip had to be copied exactly, they did not have the technology to copy only pieces.

As the engineers at DEC caught on to the Soviets stealing and copying their designs, for a joke, on one chip DEC inscribed in broken Russian “VAX – When you care enough to steal the very best” on an otherwise-unused area of the die for one of their MicroVAX CPUs. I think this echoes a Hallmark Card commercial in the US, where they proclaimed "When you care enough to send the very best".

Sorry I have never heard of Mentec and had no idea that IP was sold to another company. It would be funny if they made a copy of the MicroVax CPU themselves, but I doubt it.