Patents only allow you to sue people later. The main barrier to entry for most folks is attention span. If you're really worried about it, you should get the co

Patents only allow you to sue people later. The main barrier to entry for most folks is attention span. If you're really worried about it, you should get the contracts, etc. mentioned by others. We've used contracts once in the past 2 years. And that was only because we were recently went open kimono on the technology side for a potential acquirer.