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The patent system now accepts different filing fees for the size of the organization. That's why the percent revenue. And to say that raising the price will do
by fnid2 17y ago
The patent system now accepts different filing fees for the size of the organization. That's why the percent revenue. And to say that raising the price will do nothing is not true. Raising the price always does something. We won't know what will happen until they are raised. It can be a progressive fee system to protect individual developers who don't have the money of the big corps.
- sogrady 17y agoMy argument was not that raising the price will do nothing. "Even throttled by a higher patent fee" implies that the elevated costs would have a negative impact on patent volume. My point is that merely lowering the volume of submitted patents is insufficient to effect the necessary change, because the elements that cause the system to scale poorly are not purely volume based. And that's without even getting into the reality that dramatically higher patent submission costs would heavily advantage larger players at the expense of small innovators, which is likely to make the situation worse, not better given that it is the former who cause most o the problems with software patents at the present time.