When I see one I may change my opinion but at the moment having LED's in the front of monitor is a total fart of an idea.

That's the stupid US patent system, where you can try to patent round corners and a black frame on a smartphone 🙄 And honestly, on that surround picture in Hilbert's OP, that "thin frame" doesn't look that thin either... frameless, now that's something I want to see, anything else still breaks it for me (hence no multi display setup).

Patent abuse. Just add it to the list... http://www.businesspundit.com/strangest-patents/

Patents are like unions: When used properly, they help increase productivity and incentivise better results, but it doesn't take much for them to be very destructive. At least in the case of MSI, the product is niche enough where I don't think the negative consequences are going to matter much. This isn't a product that everyone is chasing after.