You have spent ages (and possibly large amounts of money)
working on developing your computer-implemented idea: architecting
the interface, coding the functionality, testing and tweaking the
result, and re-coding where necessary to get it perfect. You
know you have something special, and you hope it will be the next
capital letter in the BigTech acronym (GAFA + you), right?
But, have you given any thought to whether you may have something
patentable in all of that work?
Computer-implemented inventions are often overlooked by
"the next big startup company" from a patentability
standpoint. Whatever the cause, lack of funds, a
belief that computer-implemented inventions are not patentable, an
anti-patent attitude, etc., failing to consider what may be
patentable and taking action to protect commercially valuable
inventions can result in big problems down the road, for example,
when you decide to seek outside investment or even sell your
creation. For at least this
