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You live in a knowledge economy. And there will always be bigger competitors which will see the market once you have developed it. Therefore protect whatever you have got. No matter what you do. Patents have become ever more important in a knowledge economy than before. Patents have become tremendously more valuable and powerful worldwide. There are Japanese corporations using US patents to stop Taiwanese corporations from bringing products in the US. Patents are powerful.
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Finger, M., Samwer, O. (1998). Intellectual Property. In: America’s Most Successful Startups. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09252-0_12
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