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Originally Posted by aerohead
In the United States they are called U.S. PATENTS, for 17-years, just for coming up with a novel idea for a product or process, without ever testing anything.
The field of study, which is a requirement for the patent application, is a tip-off the the patent examiner, as to whether or not due diligence, and a thorough research of the appropriate patent fields have been undertaken by the applicant.
The Small Business Administration and Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration offers $ 425,000 ( US ) for ideas.
Check your premises.
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As soon as Aerohead writes something here, you can be fairly confident it needs checking for its veracity. I've found it literally doesn't matter what the topic or subject is.
You cannot patent ideas, as a 30 second web search shows.
Here
Here
...and no doubt in plenty of other places.
Why can't you patent an idea? Because an idea without evidence is valueless.