Alan Stewart
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

You might want to be more nuanced in your approach to patents rather than offering a blanket statement like, “don’t do it.” As an early stage tech startup, it may make sense to preserve your potential future rights with a provisional patent application that can be accomplished for $1000 or less, giving you time to explore and validate without jeopardizing possible US and international options for protection. If your exit strategy is acquisition or sale, make sure you have taken a real look at building your portfolio of assets.

You also completely neglected to mention anything about copyright, especially as it pertains to web materials and marketing. This option for preserving your uniqueness from misappropriation by unscrupulous competitors can be very simple and cheap to use.

I know this is an overview article but whereas you explored different versions of corporate entities, you lumped most IP into a bowl of undesirables, which is a bit overly simplistic.

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