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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>Even if it is approved, how they can prevent their ideas being stolen during the application.
Every country is “first to file” these days
If you apply for a patent for your sweet idea and after filing Google implements it and tries to get a patent you’ll still be awarded the rights because you filed your application first
Once you get the patent you can license it out to others for their use and sue them if they won’t pay reasonable fees.
There are a lot of things that are just kept as “trade secrets” which aren’t disclosed anywhere and are generally the secret sauce that differentiates one video sharing site from another or any two similar things
Trade secrets are really common in a lot of fields because patents are generally for a specific implementation not a broad idea
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