Obsidian always gets Bioware's scraps....since, essentially, Obsidian was formed by ex-Bioware employees.
Anyway.
There' some completely ungrounded rumors floating around that Bioware is working on a Kotor MMORPG; if you go to there website you will notice under current projects there are, among Sonic DS, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, a "Unnannounced Next Gen Title" and a "MMO"----there's a chance (thought unlikely) that one of those *could* be Kotor 3; Nobody knows what their 3rd dev team (Jade Empire team) has been working on since Jade Empire.
Also, Lucasarts being busy wouldn't effect Kotor 3's development; they simply have to publish it.