My boss has been bugging me about getting new ideas for patents. He says it's very easy to get a patent just needs a process that hasnt been patented yet. How much do companies benefit from patent and why are they so obsessed with collecting them?

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Anonymous Fri Nov 13 09:53:22 2020 No.23905733 [Reply] [Original]

My boss has been bugging me about getting new ideas for patents. He says it's very easy to get a patent just needs a process that hasnt been patented yet.

How much do companies benefit from patent and why are they so obsessed with collecting them?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 09:58:15 2020 No.23905846 If companies didn't patent anything, other companies will copy other companies ideas/tech, stealing potential customers from the original company that made the ideas/tech

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 10:00:57 2020 No.23905910 >>23905846 So you mean what Chinese companies are doing, while engineers and innovators are paid peanuts by American Mega-Corps?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 10:12:52 2020 No.23906203 >>23905846 Yes but the way my boss is doing is putting the cart before the horse

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