Patent strategy for US start-ups: the three-filter test and pruning recommendations

Patent attorneys answer the patentability question, but patentability tells you nothing about value. Plenty of patentable inventions are commercially worthless. The USPTO does not check whether anyone will pay for your idea, it checks whether the idea is new and non-obvious. The question every founder should be asking before filing is not “can we patent this?”. It is “even if we can, then what?”….