"decided to patent the use of LEDs for Marine aquariums, well after the people began to use LEDs for marine tanks and well after PFO began shipping the Solaris luminaire."

Even if this IS true, so what. Someone was bound to put a patent on it at some point. Could have been the other way around and Orbitec customers would be up in arms over it. If the companies that were producing these items before they even did any research to see if it was patented and failed to get a patent then its their loss. Its a dog eat dog world and obviosly the dog with enough sense to post a patent on it won. Like I said, its just bussiness.