Ask HN: To Patent, or Not To Patent

Re:Ask HN: To Patent, or Not To Patent by jwilliams on Friday January 16, 2009 @02:30AM (#436302)

"Bang for the buck", your US Patent is your best value worldwide.

I didn't say you needed to file everywhere - in fact you can't. You get to nominate in the WIPO process which countries you want to execute with.

The international examiners also give a lot of good feedback as they have a lot of experience about the individual countries - e.g. This will have problems in EU, but is fine in the US.

So if you decide the US is enough, that's fine - if you decide EU, US, AU, JP, that's fine too.

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Re:Ask HN: To Patent, or Not To Patent by gravitycop on Friday January 16, 2009 @02:39AM (#436309)

Sorry, I deleted my comment right after I posted it because I decided I wasn't sure about what you were saying.

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