You're a small business and you've got a patent on a product that you think is going to storm the market. Then someone comes along with a product that is remarkably similar to yours. What can you do – turn to lawyers for advice though this may cost you a packet?


Small companies are much smarter than their bigger brothers, if you go by the number of patents owned.

Data from the Office of National Statistics show that firms with fewer than 50 staff held 40% of all live patents between 2000 and 2008. Medium-sized businesses (50-250 staff) could only come up with 16% of patents, while larger businesses accounted for 44%.

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