It is like a religion. Some say patents inhibit innovation. Others swear they conversely facilitate innovation. No matter what side you belong to, especially more high tech companies ought to reconsider the importance of patents. So says Peter Borg Gaarde, Partner and European Patent Attorney at HØIBERG. “These companies are developing fast. Innovation is continuously taking place why measures for protection are pertinent in order to avoid others taking advantage of the inventions made,” he says. To own a patent is to be protected against others copying your idea or product for up to twenty years. Furthermore, patents are intellectual...