> Some patents are fantastically valuable to patent trolls. Some are not. A $500/year fee Part of the problem is having a huge number of BS patents driving up

> Some patents are fantastically valuable to patent trolls. Some are not. A $500/year fee Part of the problem is having a huge number of BS patents driving up the cost of going through all of them to figure out what's what. Its not the only problem with patents, but i think a "property tax" solution would solve some of the issues. I'd like it to be incrementing each year - like first year $0/year, and increasing each year so the longer you keep things out of the public domain the more you need to be able to self-jystify its value.