All good I figured there was some miscommunication going on. Not always easy to get my thoughts out accurately when it comes to forum postsThanks for clarifying @Gipetto0812
Sorry if I misunderstood your point.
You are absolutely correct that an issued patent should protect his work, at least from the bigger players with deep pockets. As you pointed out, not so much with the bootleggers.
I wouldn’t be surprised either if it is a PR stunt just as you’ve mentioned. In one hand, I do like to think of JND as ones on the higher end that would go to the lengths of getting patents, but on the other they also want to make money. Though, they did admit that the Basquiat statue was something they wanted to do regardless of the numbers they sold if I remember correctly regardless of collectors saying it was a dumb move.My theory is that Kojun put all this together, albeit with a decent amount of work, JND realized it wasn't patentable, but then filed a provisional patent just to get 12 months of being able to say "patent pending", all in the name of PR. After all, once the orders are placed, and product shipped, no one is really going to care if he got the patent. They were the first to market with it, so the technology will always be synonymous with Kojun/JND, event though Inart and/or HT might be doing it in the near future, as well.
At the end of the day, we won’t really know unless they replace “patent pending (feature)” with just “patented (feature)” in a future video I guess for either this product or the next, if they even bother at all. Like you said, once they have your money, it probably doesn’t really matter other than just playing keep away from the other guys.