Because the person is actually a business that: a) employs enough scientists who know what they're doing and lawyers who know what they're doing to file releva

Because the person is actually a business that: a) employs enough scientists who know what they're doing and lawyers who know what they're doing to file relevant and defensible patents; and b) has enough entrenched relationships that they can pay for a sales force what knows what they're doing; but c) doesn't employ enough engineers who know what they're doing to develop actual competitive products around those patentable ideas.