That’s a pretty large assumption though. Most people including many, many, tech people I have met are, to use your word, idiots about patents, essentially suspe

That’s a pretty large assumption though. Most people including many, many, tech people I have met are, to use your word, idiots about patents, essentially suspending all disbelief as if it is some kind of powerful magical certificate that validates the idea. So what you said stands but only in a world I haven’t encountered, and I have a few patents and have been around the block on this one.