Hillel Fuld, in his recent blog article “The Most Outrageous Questions Startup Founders Get Asked by Friends/Family” on his technmarketing.com blog, tells startups not to spend time and resources to patent their ideas. As an Israeli patent attorney, I find this advice surprising. Patenting certainly can be an expensive process and can require a significant time investment. But to brush patents off due to their costs is very short-sighted. When you start your company, do you s