One reason NOT to share everything with everybody:
With the new patent laws, you only have a one year window to file from the time something is first disclosed publicly.
With the new patent laws, you only have a one year window to file from the time something is first disclosed publicly.
For example, I saw a group of seed investors try to identify potential patents in their portfolio companies as a way to increase the scrap value of the firms in the worst-case scenario. But they weren't making go/no-go decisions on the basis of the patents, it was just a slight value-add after a go.
Patents only seem to be of primary importance in a few niches.
Yeah. We aren't doing that these days.