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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Keeping information private and proprietary. Many companies have patent attorneys ready to file as soon as they believe a competitor has enough information to file their own patent.
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