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Make the bounty $10000 * sqrt(# patents owned by applicant)

• Skunkleton 8y ago
  That isn't a bad idea. That would disincentivize patenting everything under the sun too.
• Retric 8y ago
  Trolls will often have one patent per company all owned by a 2nd company. That's really hard to stop.
  • franga2000 8y ago
    How about making it travel up the tree? Find the "root" company, then count the patents of all of the companies directly or indirectly under them. (yes, I like graph theory. Is it that obvious?) Use that to increase the fee. It would not only make trolling harder, but make it easier for small companies/inventors to have one or two crucial patents, which is what the system was designed for. Of course, as with most things that make sense to me, it would never pass as law.
  • true_religion 8y ago
    Not really. Perversions of the intent of law are easy to stop... just make it clear that the intent is what matters, and judges will force people to declare their corporate heirarchy or be held in contempt of court. No lawyer will play games when intent is more impprtant than the letter, sonce you cam be held in jail for contempt indefinitely based solely on the judges reputation.
• petre 8y ago
  Also adjust that $10k with inflation yearly.