Investors like patents and trademarks in the "better to have some than have none" sense. That can be still be true even when the patent system is a net minus fo

Investors like patents and trademarks in the "better to have some than have none" sense. That can be still be true even when the patent system is a net minus for small startups. Source: filed a lot of patents and trademarks in my small startups, they were useful at exit, still hate patents with a passion.