When my father was alive and I would come up with a design, he used to say, “Did you think of patenting that?”, but I would be on to the next problem. Whatever the problem, it was yesterday's, and we didn't grab our intelligence and say, “Okay, we're going to spend time and really take credit for the work we're doing.” Dad could never understand that. He would say, “Wouldn't you patent that?”
For a layperson, is the reason we don't patent that it's a barrier, considering that it takes three years and costs $3,000? Is it more of a mentality thing?