Inside the Patent System: What Every Inventor Should Know (with Patent Attorney Austin Bonderer)

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In this eye-opening episode of This Dude Started Something, Oliver and Brayden sit down with seasoned patent attorney Austin Bonderer, a man with over 700 issued U.S. patents and more stories than your average legal thriller. Austin pulls back the curtain on the chaotic world of intellectual property—where billion-dollar ideas are born, stolen, or buried.

We kick things off with the basics: what is a patent and why does it matter? But things quickly spiral into everything from patent trolls buying bankrupt portfolios to sue tech giants, to how you can literally patent a grape, and even how a simple idea like adding food coloring to white powders got patented.

The guys also get real about how AI and ChatGPT are accidentally killing people’s chances at  ...