Patents protect ideas, but only if they are implementable.

Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far

Patents are not forever, but inventions are

All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.

Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that Too Much Fuel Can Burn the Genius

The inventive step requirement makes a lawyer out of an inventor