$VLTLF $LIB.v CEO Alex Wylie made the right call by keeping their DLE technology as a proprietary trade secret instead of filing US patents. Patents are a trap in today’s world. The moment you file, you hand over a complete public blueprint: Detailed descriptions, claims, operating parameters, and methods that anyone on the planet can read for free. Chinese competitors and other bad actors don’t even need to reverse-engineer your deployed units. They just download the patent and get straight to work copying or designing around it. Why give them that advantage? Trade secrets force them to figure it out the hard way (if they can at all), without you doing the work for them. In fields like DLE where processes involve specific chemistries and conditions, that disclosure is extre
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