Common Patent Questions From Founders

Founders tend to arrive with the same cluster of patent questions: how patents differ from trademarks, when a provisional fits, whether software and AI work can be protected, what prior art means for them, and how international protection works. Each has a real answer — but the answer that matters is the one for a specific company's facts, not the generalized version.

Lynch LLP works through these questions with inventors and companies as part of setting a patent strategy, rather than treating them as a checklist. Where any of them lands depends on the technology, the timeline, and the business.

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