> You can: increase the price for patenting something. Google will think twice before spending 100K for hello world. This is a terrible idea. Google will not t

> You can: increase the price for patenting something. Google will think twice before spending 100K for hello world. This is a terrible idea. Google will not think twice before spending 100k for a patent on hello world, but startups and small businesses would be priced out of the patent system entirely. All this would do is further increase and entrench the power of large corporations to the detriment of startups, entrepreneurs, SMBs, and ultimately, consumers.