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> That is incorrect. You can get a patent for a few thousand dollars is you do your homework.
That might be true in a very literal sense (from a filing-fees perspective). In a brass-tacks/real-world sense, though, it's simply not.
> There are books
There are also books on how to use candles to cast magic spells. The existence of literature on the topic doesn't necessarily make it more realistic as an approach.
> I'm just stating what I know about it based upon discussions with patent officers many years ago.
And I'm stating what I know from working with our in-house legal counsel as well as our go-to I.P. law firm over the last 7 years of of working with them to apply for 50+ patents, of which ~20 made it to the final phase and were approved.
No lay-person is ever going to take a software patent from start to finish on their own.
I can't speak authoritatively to non-software patents, but I'd suspect that given that the USPTO has an entire page dedicated to protecting individuals from the patent-your-idea-yourself scam industry that it's not too likely in other fields either.
> What is the difference between building special purpose hardware to solve a problem versus having a general purpose computer solve the same problem?
Historically, the trade-off for hardware-solutions is that they require significant up-front cost. Establishing a real-world/physical product with novel manufacturing needs is costly. By the time a piece of hardware is ready to go to market, a lot of money has been sunk into it. There is not, as far as I know, an entire cottage-industry based around obtaining broadly worded manufacturing patents and suing companies. That's because patents in the physical space are typically far too specific to be cheated that way.
On the flip-side most software patents aren't even based on actual implementations. They're just based on the idea of a possible implementation. While the same is true of non-software patents, it's far easier to come up with "patentable" (very intentional quotes there) software ideas. I know because I used to do it as a game with coworkers.
> the whole purpose of a patent is to protect your IP
Your I.P. is protected under copyright law just like anything else. The only thing software patents do is give companies a legal tool to play the corporate game.