One of the biggest hurtles you can run into when starting a company is the issue of patents. Often larger companies don’t like the competition whether or not they actually have a patent on your technology. There’s right and wrong, but independent of the merit of a case brought against you, it doesn’t matter if you can’t defend yourself. Now Google and Intertrust are launching a new service called PatentShield that provides startups with access to a patent portfolio from contributing companies like Google, giving them a means of defending patent-based attacks with their own.
Google and Intertrust launch PatentShield to protect startups from patent lawsuits was written by the awesome team at Android Police.