R.IP.

Recent figures from IP Australia show that 70 per cent of local intellectual property protection filings in Australia come from SMEs.

This was then commented upon:

“It’s a sobering indication that start-up companies are failing to get on the front foot early enough to lock down their most valuable asset – their IP. Given the level of innovation in Australia, we would expect to see a higher proportion of IP filings by our innovators in smaller and start-up businesses, rather than the current dominance by established SMEs.”

Geez that confused me until I realised that the author was distinguishing between startups and SMEs in Australia; not something that I do. 

For mine, our startups are just unprofitable SMEs.

In any case there’s no inventions in our startups so why would they file patents?

All inventions are innovative, but very few innovations are inventive. Doo dah…

As for trademarks, copyright and registered designs, well the internet has killed them and the internet startups boys are the ones actually doing the killing.