1. A patent office costs non-trivial money to run. Particularly if you want it to run well and be staffed by examiners competent in their technology domains. W

1. A patent office costs non-trivial money to run. Particularly if you want it to run well and be staffed by examiners competent in their technology domains. Why should the non-patentable industries subsidize this cost (ostensibly via taxes) to the benefit of patentable industries? Why, when the cost is very closely related to quantity of work, should that cost be borne by anyone but the industries that hope to benefit from the work they're creating? 2. Negligence and fraud aren't problems in the patent system. What's the point of a bond against them? 3. Shorter terms are something that just about everyone supports in theory and then disagrees on in the specific discussion of: how short?