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I wholeheartedly agree. If this were true, we wouldn't need a patent system.

• hobb0001 13y ago
  Arguably, the patent system is about execution, not ideas. Science fiction authors have been providing cool ideas for free for some time now.
• gnaritas 13y ago
  Patents don't cover ideas, they cover implementations of those ideas.
  • corresation 13y ago
    There are patents on time machines and those that break the laws of thermodynamics. Because many patents lies at an abstract cross road midway between idea and execution.
    • gnaritas 13y ago
      The patents are still on proposed implementations, not on the idea itself.