Competitive Strategy

Inventions & patents deliver sustainable moats that are much easier to enforce than trade secrets.  In addition, they protect your unique value proposition and can be monetized in different ways beyond your product or service offerings.  Also worthy of note, is the value patents deliver in the context of M&A or liquidity transactions.  They are fundamental to a companies ability to claim strategic value that can dramatically increase business valuation that goes beyond mere measures of revenue or discounted cash flows.