This is a response today from CCR to a similar Question on Discord.
We are still planning the 5 applications which were reported after meeting with the law firm last December. Regarding how long it will take for the other patents; I cannot even begin to think about giving a date for this. However, we have learned how the process works now and will be taking additional steps to try to improve the efficiency.

Judging by the fact that our first swing at the bat was for 3 different POSIGN patent applications, for a very complex consensus process, it should be much faster.

Regarding a delay for the tech, I cannot comment on this at this time, other than to say again that this tech is not an on/off switch. There are a potentially unlimited amount of milestones in front of us as we continue to build out this blockchain development platform.

One of the key milestones for the community is the opening of STATIC registrations. Once we have PP for POSIGN, you can expect this registration to open at any time thereafter. This is required because the next piece of the tech that needs to be assembled is the network and this network requires the 3 levels of STATIC nodes, which each play a different role in the POSIGN consensus.