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maartin0 | 5 months ago

Not completely related, but do you know if hardware kickstarters typically have any IP protection? I'm surprised there haven't been any cases of large companies creating patents for ideas from kickstarter at least that I've seen

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ssl-3|5 months ago

One cannot (or at least, one is not supposed to be able to) patent someone else's invention.

privatelypublic|5 months ago

You theoretically have a year before you even have to apply- but patents are expressly "first to file."