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Now, copyrights have to do with copying. If you wrote something that was word for word the same as some famous novel, and you could prove that you did this while you were locked up in a room and you have never seen that novel, this would not be copyright violation because it's not copying. But a patent is an absolute monopoly on using a particular idea. And even if you could show that you thought of it on your own, that would be considered totally irrelevant. It doesn't help you.