I have a few theories I am thinking: First it is quite often (believe it or not) that a well orchestrated bashing program (like done with amda) can cause potential partners/suitors to back off ... Quite often the personal in business development departments want to feel proud of the moves they make, and a sense of failure can surround making a move on a very heavily bashed company.... since the target company is being "branded" as a failure by the bashers, causing staff in business dev. departments to back off of any deals.
The above may have happening to some of the upper ortho competitors by I am speculating, that at least one of the big ortho competitors, has known all along how valuable (and dangerous to their own business viability) the AMDA tech is... I think this company, or companies, has likely been tricked into thinking that the best way to respond , to the threat of this valuable game changing tech, was to bash amda into the ground --- try to basically destroy the company. I say tricked because it looks like they are shooting themself in the foot actually, just making amda a cheaper buyout for their competitor, who can then use the same tech, against them, to destroy their MC.....This is just a theory but is what it looks like to me... Yes the peek boys were tricked...