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How money does it cost to apply for a patent?. Because if the cost is negligible, then an exploit would be to flood the patent system with dumb patent applicati
by sandov 9y ago
How money does it cost to apply for a patent?. Because if the cost is negligible, then an exploit would be to flood the patent system with dumb patent application until one of them is accepted. Hell, maybe a machine learning algorithm could be trained to produce trillions of gibberish pdf files, until one of them makes sense, then you can claim the invention.
- ada1981 9y agoMy patent cost about $10k all in. I filed the provisional application myself; then I found an investor who bankrolled hiring a lawyer. I recently did not renew the patent and have allowed it go into the public domain.
- Retra 9y agoThe patent system requires people to review the patents before they are accepted. Overloading patent reviewers with garbage patents isn't going to do you any favors. It'd be a bit like DDOS'ing yourself...