Thanks for that reply and analysis, John.

"If people don't believe that others would not pay big bucks to duplicate a POET optical interposer by offering the top POET people whatever they wanted then you are not living in the real world."

The above quoted language reminds me of one of the biggest mysteries (for me) about Poet - why doesn't someone take a run at the whole company. Why take a chance with patent issues or other messes when a company is raided. Just buy it all!