Patents: Ideas vs Implementations
The cluster centers on repeated clarifications that patents protect specific implementations of ideas, not abstract ideas themselves, often distinguishing patents from copyrights.
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You can't patent an idea. You can only patent an implementation of an idea.
You can't patent an idea, only an implementation of an idea.
We're talking about patents not copyrights...
You can't patent an idea - only an implementation.
You can't patent ideas only specific implementation of ideas.
It's implementations (supposedly) that are covered by patents. Ideas are not.
Patents don't cover ideas, they cover implementations of those ideas.
Just make your own. Patents protect how something is done, not the idea of doing it.
You can't patent an idea. You can patent the implementation of it if you're specific enough.
Those are protected by patents, not copyrights.