Patent protection would take years to be approved. Even if it is approved, how they can prevent their ideas being stolen during the application.
Also, ideas are often not worthy. Big tech can come up better solution better execution so how can one protect their ideas ?
For example, in the early stage of youtube, big tech have all the resources to recreate a similar platform but why didnt they do that ? If youtube was not just popular at that time, will their ideas silently stolen by big giant ?
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It’s not really a patent problem; Patents are vehemently first to file.
That said, you’re not gonna have a monopoly on the concept, and companies will find a way to do something differentiated enough to work.
In this case, the answer is that you can’t stop em; which is why you either have to make a niche product that a big producer wrong care for, or continue to innovate so you can keep up
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