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No Patent Protection for Business Strategies
There typically is no patent protection potential for business-strategy
ideas such as X company buying a Y company, or Z company running a W ad
campaign.
More:
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Patents protect useful inventions (including business
methods) that are new and non-obvious in comparison to what is already
known.
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A company buying another company is a known process because
it has been done before, and the selection of a specific company buying a
specific type of company is typically considered a matter of choice which
adds no patentable weight to a known process.
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A company running an ad campaign is a known process because
it has been done before, and the selection of a specific company running a
certain type of ad campaign is typically considered a matter of choice
which adds no patentable weight to a known process.
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A specific ad campaign itself, however, might itself be
patentable if it is both new and non-obvious given the known ad campaigns
– and the non-obvious standard will be a challenge to meet here.
Or don’t try to run someone else’s company? Maybe, maybe not:
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Business brokers routinely push ideas (reasons) for buying
and selling businesses to businesses.
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Business consultants routinely create business-strategy
ideas, including buying and selling businesses.
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Advertising companies routinely create proposals for types
of ad campaigns.
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Each earns their fees at least partly in selling their
ideas.
What if you are none of these but think you have a block-buster idea?
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Difficult, at best.
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Many, if not most, companies refuse to accept outsider
ideas except under non-confidentiality agreements - no money without
patent protection.
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Company without such protective policies are risking
costly litigation.
Instead:
other topics -
about patents,
patents vs trade
secrets,
corporate
patent applications,
entry-level patent applications,
patent it or not,
patent ready,
patent
myths
questions, inquiries
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contact the firm
(all contact modes)
or call 312.419.8055
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