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If that were the case, most companies (organizations) would not go to great lengths to protect their IP (e.g., via patents and trade secrets).
by ablekh 7y ago
If that were the case, most companies (organizations) would not go to great lengths to protect their IP (e.g., via patents and trade secrets).
- verdverm 7y agoPatents are not for ideas, you can only patent processes, which one could define as the execution of the idea
- ablekh 7y ago"... you can only patent processes ..." -- This is not true, as far as I know. Patents are about invention / innovation (not necessarily in a process-focused format). For example, see https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/general-information-concerning-patents#heading-4 https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/general-inform.... Many, if not the most, patents are essentially about idea or a coherent set of ideas, which sometimes is/are "wrapped" into a process-focused legalese of a varied "thickness".