Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
Why do some companies choose to patent their innovation while others choose to hide it? When facing the choice of patenting or hiding a valuable innovation, you must first ask yourself whether the invention is patentable at all. This change may further tip the balance for more reliance on secrecy for certain innovations.
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