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On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 5:23:28 AM UTC-5, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
> Thanks, very informative and useful.
>=20
> (I create patentable ideas as I breathe...)

Btw, (wishful) ideas themselves are not patentable.  Only the apparatus(es)=
 and method(s) that bring those ideas into fruition (as reified reality) ar=
e patentable.  (And thus many patents are able to be bypassed via a differe=
nt apparatus and/or different method to accomplish the idea's outcome/wish=
=E2=80=94and thus why new patents on new variants on paperclips are often v=
alid fresh inventions:  the wishful idea of a paperclip that doesn't fall o=
ff isn't what is being patented; the apparatus or method for =E2=80=A2how=
=E2=80=A2 to increase friction of paperclip to paper is what is being paten=
ted.)