Patents

“You have 12 months after you announce something if you want to patent it. And if you miss that window, it's very hard to do.”

“Patents tend to matter less. There's less protection under patent law for software or patents anyway, and most of your success is going to be determined not by their protectability of your property under law, but rather your execution under the software. If yo…”

“So it's very rare that startups build a successful moat using patents. This happens much more in, like, biotech”

“This is, like, one of those things that people who are not in the startup world think is a critical piece of starting a business, because they may have heard of, like, someone else who got screwed out of their idea or something like that. But if you're startin…”

“Michael, should I file patents for all of my IP? Exactly. That's a classic overthinking thing. Probably not.”