When a company has a new invention with vast commercial potentials, this invention often becomes a great asset that can lead the company into new breakthroughs in terms of its financial performance.
This is more so when the company owns the exclusive ability to commercialize and market this invention, thus giving it a market monopoly that promises exclusive territories of profits, totally out of bounds for its competitors.
Therefore, if the invention is new, inventive, industrially applicable, has market potential and has a risk that another company may profit from that invention besides the company itself, the company should protect it through a patent registration. A patent is to provide exclusive rights of the owner of the original invention to profit from it.