This is not the start of a joke, but the beginning of a partnership between an inventor and a patent attorney, i.e. two experts from closely related fields. A lot depends on the quality of this partnership: how effective the legal protection of a invention is in domestic and foreign territories, how the risk of infringing others’ rights can be minimised when placing a product on the market, and many other issues… Indeed, such factors have a significant bearing on whether a company’s activities truly translate into commercial and financial success.
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