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by danieltillett 3800 days ago
Nothing that I could not re-license again later. I lost the patents in progress as I didn’t have the resources to continue with them, but this was actually a blessing in disguise. Rather than protecting the IP by patents I was forced to concentrate on trade secrets which if you have the choice is a much better way to go.

If anyone is interested in learning more I wrote a rather long blog post about the whole experience [1].

1. http://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in-...