Patents only benefit the corporations. If you need a patent to be successful you kind of suck. There are ways to protect your IP such as ASICS that’s are hard coded from the factory that can’t have the firmware extracted and so if someone gets the product and tears it down they will have to re-write the code from scratch rendering it a knock off that may not be the same
I mean… patents are published with instructions for building it … they’re on the internet… china uses the same internet… 🤷🏽♂️
Patents are effectively useless for protecting your idea.
Patents only benefit the corporations. If you need a patent to be successful you kind of suck. There are ways to protect your IP such as ASICS that’s are hard coded from the factory that can’t have the firmware extracted and so if someone gets the product and tears it down they will have to re-write the code from scratch rendering it a knock off that may not be the same