This would also hamper the original purpose of patents - to protect small time inventors from large companies duplicating their inventions. Sure, maybe Apple co

This would also hamper the original purpose of patents - to protect small time inventors from large companies duplicating their inventions. Sure, maybe Apple could afford greatly increased patent fees, but if you raised them enough to pay for six-figure salaries of patent examiners, it would be prohibitively expensive for ordinary people to use the system.