At 11:01 AM 6/12/2014, Dr Bob Jansen you wrote: >My view of patenting is that it is only worth the effort if you can afford it >in the first place, then can detect when the idea is abused and then can >afford to enforce the patent. So any small startup may not have the cash to >patent in the first place but if they subsequently can not afford to enforce >the patent then what is the point in the first place. From memory, there have >been many accounts of large companies just out-paying the patent holder and so >the protection is worthless.
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