Nobody will be able to use this in the ham bands without a ham license, or in the LMR without the appropriate licenses.
I did not mean to imply that anyone should do anything at all that they aren't legally allowed to do. Type-approval is about FCC requirements for the device, rather than the licensee. Land-mobile licenses just take money and ham licenses are easy enough to get that the regularly-abled don't really have an excuse not to get one. And one can also get the FCC Part 5 Experimental license.
Astonishingly, Amateur type-acceptance is only for receivers: that they don't operate as cellular scanners, and external amplifiers: that they don't amplify CB. Not for transmitters! After all, it's supposed to be an experimental service.
We have had softmodems on HF for a long time, so introducing mode and protocol flexibility to VHF/UHF isn't really anything new. The users will work out the interoperability issues among themselves, and if they want to switch to a new mode next year, they can.
The first-use-in-commerce dates on AMBE 1000 would result in the patents becoming un-enforcable about a week after Hamvention.