Mark Twain was a huge fan of the patent system. He himself filed a patent for adjustable straps for bras.
He once said, “A country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn’t travel any way but sideways or backwards”.
![Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)](https://patentyogi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Mark-Twain-A-Connecticut-Yankee-in-King-Arthurs-Court-1889.jpg)
(Source: Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889))