Companies submit patents all the time to throw off the competition and/or manipulate the competition's thinking, just ask Apple, Google, Amazon or Samsung.
The technicals are lousy for MYDX. And when they're issuing PRs, as they did prior to the last 10-Q declaring they are cash flow positive (which they are not) by using accounting tricks that would make Enron alumnus proud, there's obviously some desperation going on at MYDX. Licensing agreements and fluffy PRs is not a sustainable business strategy.