Which is true, but harder to justify when you’re 20 and can barely afford PBR let alone the knowledge to manufacture a real product. IA school funded patent committee existed and would’ve probably protected the idea long enough to either collect royalties from the imitators (which didn’t happen til years later) and fuel a production run.
I did try shopping the idea around to a few companies at the time, but nobody bit. Or if they did I just had no recourse.
This was also one of my exact sketch concepts…
