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Patent or depatent?

Both paths protect freedom to operate, but they work in opposite directions.

Patent or depatent

Choose the path before you publish.

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Use this when you want to own the invention, license it, raise around it, or stop others commercially.

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Depatent it

Use this when you want the idea in the public domain so nobody can patent the same thing later.

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