I'm French too. You're talking trademark. It's OK to protect your name. Actually, patents themselves are OK in a lot of domains, when you are patenting a specif

I'm French too. You're talking trademark. It's OK to protect your name. Actually, patents themselves are OK in a lot of domains, when you are patenting a specific process, the concrete, multi-step application of an idea. The problem with software/business patents is that you're usually patenting an idea. Take it another way. Write software in the US, and as soon as you're making money, you run the risk of being sued by a patent troll in Eastern Texas. Write software in France, you run no such risk (some would even maliciously say that you don't run the risk of making money).