Reefers stand up and fight.

[Jonthefishguy]

So let me get this right, you're mad because some company who has no interest in marketing their patent towards the marine industry and wont allow their patent to be used by other companies!?!

Sorry, but I dont agree with you. For whatever reason they deemed fit to patent this idea, it is their patent regardless of whether or not you agree with why it is they way it is.

Besides, not having LED's over your aquarium will not end the hobby or its future. Although many of us would like to see LED's full potential in the aquaria trade, it is not a make or break deal. This hobby as well as other forms of lighting for the marine hobby have done just fine without it.

I would certainly like to add that if I were the patent holder of an idea or product, I would not allow any competitors to sale, modify, or promote my idea at all; regardless of whether it is different than its original patent intent. If I found that someone was using my patent, I would seek to either have royalties paid for the use, seek legal action barring the use of my patent, and or any and all other forms that I deem fit to see that my patent stays with me. This is just business like it or not.

Create a patent and lets see how you react when someone else uses it without your permission. I am not starting a fight, I am simply saying, it is the way it is.