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cef3 replied to the topic NDA vs Patents in the forum Consultants and Legal Basics 8 years, 4 months ago
The thing is that what you may be working on (as covered by an NDA) may not be sufficient to be apply for a patent. You may in fact be needing work or studies done by a contractor or collaborator to have sufficient data or evidence to make the idea patentable or defendable before a patent agency. Thus, an NDA is almost always necessary prior to development of a product. This is what I have gathered from my industrial experience.