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I'll throw out there that I've never seen a case of patents helping a software startup that intends to make a product. Patents take a lot of capital to file and defend, and at the end of the day larger entities will simply stonewall for longer than you can pay your lawyers.

I've only seen it pay out for small players with non practicing entities. Where you patent something, never intend to build your own product, but wait for someone else (hopefully a large company) to clearly infringe and sue them for less than the seven figures of a patent trial so they they just roll over. Because you haven't made anything they can't countersue with their own patents.