"We explain this because recently a competitor has announced their intention to offer a freestanding tent based on our X-Mid floorplan. We are disappointed a major company is appropriating our floorplan invention and claiming it as their idea (5 years after we released a tent with it), but we share this not to air a grievance with them (please be nice) nor to claim they are outside of what they are legally allowed to do (that is complex matter) but just to clearly explain that this floorplan is our invention, and to share that the idea of combining this unique floorplan with a traditional freestanding tent pole structure has not escaped us. We've been prototyping such a tent for several years - which is patent pending and we call the X-Dome. We may not be the first to release a freestanding tent of this type, but this floorplan geometry is something we invented and best understand, having spent years developing and refining this idea."