Before You Tell Anyone, File: The Patent Strategy That Protects and Funds Your Startup
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Before You Tell Anyone, File: The Patent Strategy That Protects and Funds Your Startup
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Most founders treat patents as paperwork for later. That delay can cost them the asset itself.
In this episode of Ops or Die, Maria Pienaar and Katie Whitcraft sit down with Shem Lachhman, managing partner and co-founder of Menlo Park Patents, to unpack why intellectual property belongs in your operations plan from the start. Shem paid for his own patents as a frustrated tech founder, then built a fixed-fee firm now filing roughly 1,000 applications a year at a 95% approval rate.
What you will learn
- Why the US first-to-file system means you file now and file fast, before a prototype even exists
- The 12-month grace period, and why founders should stay quiet and file before they publish
- The most common mistake, assuming your idea is not patentable, when only an examiner and the courts get to decide that
- How patents raise valuation, attract investors, and act as an insurance policy if the company fails
- How to position your patent portfolio in a pitch deck, including a future-filings roadmap
Connect with Shem at MenloParkPatents.com or on LinkedIn, and mention the code ScaleSpark for 10% off.
Ops or Die is hosted by Maria Pienaar and Katie Whitcraft of ScaleSpark. Make your operations smart at ScaleSpark.ai.
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