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For the average patent.

• rpm4321 14y ago
  I suppose that depends on how pervasive patent trolling has become. But yes, I would say that the development of the vast majority of inventions worth protecting would necessitate more than some scribbling on a bar napkin. If the process begins with some vague "inspiration" about where an invention may lie, and then promptly ends with a call to your lawyer - no feasibility testing, no fleshing out of the concept, no iteration of thought, I would say that the patent system is fundamentally broken.