Startup Funding Espresso - IP - Demonstrate you have a secret sauce
Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.Investors look for some protection over the idea. Patents and trade secrets can help. Half the value of a patent is for show, to investors. In practice, it\u2019s difficult to use patents as the sole means for protecting your business from the competition, but it can help. If you have patents, investors want to know what was filed and when.\xa0 Was it a provisional patent, or a design patent, or a utility patent? No one expects you to have awarded patents for utility or design patents, as the process typically takes over three years to complete. If you don\u2019t have any patents, it\u2019s advisable to file a number of provisional patents so you can tell investors \u2018we have patent pending technology\u2019. One advantage of provisional patents is that it gives you a year to figure out if patents can provide any reasonable protection and then file for a full patent. You don\u2019t have to pursue those patents if it doesn\u2019t turn out to make business sense. \xa0 Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding. Let\u2019s go startup something today. For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: Check out our other podcasts here: For Investors check out: For Startups check out: For eGuides check out: For upcoming Events, check out For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group