Not quite. Patents are issued to protect ideas in case they do work. Many of them don't, or don't have commercial applications, but the idea is that the patent protects the IP while the inventor develops it. But yes, novelty (no prior art, in patent jargon) is required.
Ann: OHD Crop Trials, page-191
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