You claimed:
Before the new management team was assembled, the orginal milestones (VCEL, etc) were done with the idea of creating an integrated opto-electronic chip that they would showcase to the market and industry partners.
These milestones were created. But are they done? Well, this is your opinion, lebowski, and I am going with you. It makes sense that people like SV and SD wouldn't have joined without a good proof that POET is working as promissed.
It would be just really nice if POET would tell us this officially!
Nota bene: There were a lot of proof of concepts before, but at bigger node size. (Question to the older POET specialists here on board: Where to find these old milestones?) I think POET should highlight this fact somewhere dominant at their homepage!
In addition: To file a patent you always need a proof of concept, am I right?