But, the experience from the developing world says that, getting intellectual property rights helps in the longer run in the form of burgeoning creativity…

@ this post,

Surely, would be of great help to startups…

Thanks for posting the interesting article. Leveraging intellectual property, whether patent, trademark, or copyright, or others, should begin almost at the moment of its creation.

By that I mean that the business should have a philosophy and practice of investing in the affirmative steps necessary to establish legal protection as a predicate to the onset of leveraging. The same strategic business vision that was applied to creating the asset should be applied to protecting it. Otherwise, the discussion of leveraging might have been made moot (or far more difficult and expensive).

Paul