The other part of the fallacy is thinking that nobody but you could have thought of the idea you're thinking of, or conversely in our patent damaged world, that if you thought of it independently then you can't be infringing a patent because what you thought up was 'obvious.'
Both thoughts are wrong of course. If you're going to build a business around a concept these days it seems like you should always file a provisional patent if only to force the due diligence on patent infringement ahead of time.
The other part of the fallacy is thinking that nobody but you could have thought of the idea you're thinking of, or conversely in our patent damaged world, that if you thought of it independently then you can't be infringing a patent because what you thought up was 'obvious.'
Both thoughts are wrong of course. If you're going to build a business around a concept these days it seems like you should always file a provisional patent if only to force the due diligence on patent infringement ahead of time.