How do you know they've filed a ptent on it? Just saying it on a website doesn't make it true. Also, applications won't show up for at least a year. That sai

How do you know they've filed a ptent on it? Just saying it on a website doesn't make it true. Also, applications won't show up for at least a year. That said, you have a year to get your patent in from when you first launched your service, so you should do that. No wait, what you really need to do is talk to a patent lawyer so he/she can guide you to resolve this. He/she might suggest you patent your original idea, and then later file an additional patent on this idea that is tied back to the original. There is a lot of patent strategy that can help you here, but talking about it publicly is not really one of them.