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Should I delay filing a patent application?

Although you may keep your invention completely secret and delay your patent application, if you delay you may find that your invention no longer qualifies for protection in light of other patents granted or applied for, or inventions that already came within public knowledge or use. If you own a startup business looking for financing, you should have already acquired your rights (see " "Jump on your Intellectual Property Rights").
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