Comment Re:Lemme guess.. (Score 1) 112
People realized that requiring prototypes made it impossible for small companies or individual inventors to get patents, particularly where the prototype alone might cost a million dollars to make.
And of course, it also make's it very expensive for large companies to come up with a slew of extremely embryonic ideas and patent them.
Of course, it does help the small inventor by quickly showing him that any creative effort on his part is a complete waste of time, and he would be better off getting a job making the coffee in Microsoft.