You can game “taking an innovation to market” any number of ways.  Making the product unrealistically expensive.  Only manufacturing a very limited number, or even a single, item.  Making an item that technically uses the patent but is in a very different sort of field than any product which would be actually useful.  Making the actual product practically unusable, or hideously ugly, or horribly uncomfortable.<p>These are all things which normally would be solved by competition in the marketplace, but you don’t have competition, since a patent is a monopoly.  So you have to solve <i>all these problems</i> some other way.