In industry, a shortage of any kind that lasts more than a few months is proof of bad management or a planned scam. It can also be a collusion of different entities to keep prices up.
There is always a way of having a product outsourced to more effective speedier means, in time to fill a demand. The failure to do so is bad management or plain intent to capitalise. I will not make a guess at which it is in this case but it is the right of the owner of an invention to do so and I hope they make enough money before the market collapses for lack of sales.
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