Patents and papers, though phonetically similar, mean very different things for monetizing ideas, according to Christina Sperry and Inna Dahlin of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. In a recent blog post, they note that early on in their careers, technical and scientific professionals are encouraged to publish their writing, but aren’t given the same advice about the importance of filing patents for those same ideas. At a recent conference Dahlin attended, she said she was asked more than once about the difference between a published paper and a patent.
“To a patent practitioner, the two documents and their purposes are so different that any comparison can seem superfluous,” she says. And it’s important to understand the distinction, since a patent application (which protects your rights to an invention) must be filed before any public disclosure of the idea is made, according to the authors.
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