http://startitup.indieword.com/person/4082 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:39:34 GMT Comments by francine hardaway <p>The patent system is outmoded. Most startups who file provisional patents can&#8217;t afford to defend them anyway, and filing a patent makes public your information.</p> <p>The only we reason we tell our clients to go for patents is if they are going for VC funding. Investors always ask if the IP is protected.</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/patents-why-bother#content_6107 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/patents-why-bother#content_6107 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:39:34 GMT francine hardaway <p>I am teaching an entrepreneurship course and I will send them here. I will also send you our entrepreneurs from Arizona, who would love to have this kind of dialogue. Thanks for doing this&#8230;</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/introducing#content_6108 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/introducing#content_6108 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:42:25 GMT francine hardaway