When I did write patents the lawyers were telling us:
- Everything is patentable, it is the enforcing part that is hard (i.e. remember the computer mouse)
- Patents are only valid if you have money to enforce them.<p>And then I heard from some start-up about another:
- What are they offering?, they don&#x27;t even have IP. Nobody is going to buy them...<p>I got to the conclusion that they are more than any other thing a way to demonstrate value for small companies and a tool for big companies to delay competition from new entrants. I haven&#x27;t understood yet how patent offices take care of the prior art...