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Downvoted because that is not a reasonable crucible for if something is patentable ("can clone your device just by looking at it").

There is a vast swath of reasonable patents that are easily "copyable" after the fact.

If something wasn't easily copyable then you wouldn't need a patent in the first place.

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Airplanes are easily "copyable". That didn't stop the Wright Brothers from patenting the first workable one. And they were engineers, not really entrepreneurs. It would be a shame for the brothers known for giving man the power of flight to never make any money from their achievement.

> Airplanes are easily "copyable".

You're kidding, right?

*were easily "copyable".

The Wright Brothers had hundreds of competitors at the time. They were also very private during their later attempts to get their flying machine to work, so that they could avoid competitors copying their design.

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