It might be time to review your start-up's intellectual property situation and file for those patents you've been intending to apply for, but have not gotten ar

It might be time to review your start-up's intellectual property situation and file for those patents you've been intending to apply for, but have not gotten around to doing so. Would your intellectual property block others from competing? Note that the "new" patent law changes the priority of patents from "first to invent" to "first to file" at some point in the future (2013?).