[ThreePuttinDude]

I’m not too sure you can patent an idea without a working plan or blueprint of that product.

I had to jump through hoops, and cross more T’s and dot more I’s than you can imagine.

This doesn't sound like an example of the patent process I’ve been through.

[null and void]

I’m not too sure you can patent an idea without a working plan or blueprint of that product.

I've done it. Or more accurately, I never had occasion to demonstrate that it works to the USPTO.

The general requirement for a working model was dropped in the 19^th century.

Although one still needs a working model to patent a perpetual motion device, should one figure out how to make one...