Federal prosecutors gave Sidley Austin a pass because, they said, most of Ruble's illicit work was done pre-merger and because post-merger he was told to knock it off but didn't and kept his activities hidden.
During his second stint at Atari, in 1975, Jobs worked on a "Pong" knock-off called "Breakout" with the help of his longtime friend Wozniak, who did most of the engineering work on the video game, even though he wasn't being paid by Atari.