Richard Nixon actually said...

One of the virtues of the American patent system is its emphasis upon practicality--its demands that ideas be reduced to a tangible form having a known usefulness before the public should grant a monopoly on the concept to the applicant.

Context

Special Message to the Congress Proposing Patent Modernization and Reform Legislation

09/26/1973

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