The Patent Trap: Why Small Builders May Be Better Off Giving Their Ideas Away

For a small inventor, the instinct is obvious: if you have a good idea, protect it.

Patent it. Keep the source code private. Tell as few people as possible until you have enough money and leverage to defend it.

But there is a problem with that strategy: the companies most capable of copying your idea are also the companies most capable of surviving the legal battle afterward.

Watching The Billion Dollar Code made me reconsider what protection actually means for a small creator.

Maybe secrecy isn’t protection.

Maybe distribution is.

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