{"id":605,"date":"2015-09-28T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:15:44","slug":"patent-dos-and-donts-for-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/patent-dos-and-donts-for-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Dos and Don\u2019ts for Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Patents can add real value to an innovative venture \u2013 they not only increase both the speed and amount of VC funding but also can help stave off competition both in India and abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many successful Indian start-ups, including Flipkart and Makemytrip, have filed and obtained patents in India for their technology. This article discusses some patent dos and don\u2019ts that an entrepreneur must keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>File for a patent before publicly disclosing your invention<\/li>\n<li>If your employee works on an invention, make sure you have the invention assigned to your company<\/li>\n<li>File for a patent early<\/li>\n<li>Not every invention may be patentable but a patent lawyer can help you identify those inventions which qualify<\/li>\n<li>Patents give territorial rights<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t use patented technology without a license<\/li>\n<li>Announce your patent rights<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Authored by Aditya Gupta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/patent-dos-donts-entrepreneurs-aditya-gupta\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patents can add real value to an innovative venture \u2013 they not only increase both the speed and amount of VC funding but also can help stave off competition both in India and abroad. Many successful Indian start-ups, including Flipkart and Makemytrip, have filed and obtained patents in India for their technology. This article discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98,57,143],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}