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David Megginson wrote: > Intellectual property is a checklist item for investors (especially > venture capitalists), so there's enormous pressure on small tech > startups to patent something -- *anything* -- Just as investors often "require" patents, they also require disclosure of patents that one potentially infringes and proof that you've looked for them. The impact, of course, is that innovation is compromised as young, fragile startups are forced to spend time proving to their potential investors that someone's patents are bogus. Of course, even in the case where the silliness of a patent is pretty obvious, the investors are still nervous about the costs of one day defending against the silliness. The result is that startups end up spending money, time, resource, energy, defending against silly patents when they should be pouring everything into building new and innovative methods of their own. bob wyman
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