RE: Third Party Observation Published18 May 2022 13:16
The trouble is that I'm not sure it matters one jot. I'm sure that if I was to waste half an hour, I could come up with a long list of products that are regularly for sale by successful companies and that are not proteced by a patent. Market position and commercial relationships count for a lot and Wyld are doing well in this regard.
The idea of installing a small transmitter in an IoT device and relaying it's signal via satellite, given a local dearth of ground connections, can hardly be an original idea. Ditto this 'game theory' approach, as we see. And yet no one has done it, despite Wyld experiencing an extremely positive market response. And, as they freely admit, it may be that, in a typically fast moving tech industry, another approach will emerge. Well, that's typical for any tech product. My own career spanning 35 years in the IT sector saw my employment prospects evaporating overnight on three occasions as the tech that was made by my employer became superceded. The Apple Mac vs prior Unix work stations for image retouching was an example. Nothing to do with patents. Just a different approach.
This is all part of the risk. I'm not sure it needs to be considered in the depth to which you are doing so. This IP risk is a given. A patent would be nice but to be honest, it's not worth a hell of a lot in IT. There's always more than one way to skin a cat.
As for you not being invested but believing you have some sort of patronising responsibility to keep us mere mortals informed... I have a particular bugbear about this and have come to susp[ect that people who do this are fairly elderly, backward looking, brexit supporting conservative, of whom such a patronising attitude would be typical. Honestly, I don't know where you live but go out for a walk, take up a hobby. Or something. You're wasting your precious life my friend.
If you want a good spat about the wisdom of being invetsed, go and take a look at EUA, or perhaps PIR.