I'd go for an inverse charge. No fee to apply. However, if anyone proves the patent invalid, the Patent Office must pay the "prover" $50K plus costs ;-)
In the past I've done a lot of expert witness consulting. This year, though, I've lost a lot of business by telling potential clients that their patent wasn't worth the powder to blow it to hell.
Unfortunately I sure they found themselves an alternate "expert" who would swear to anyth>The US Patent Office and system is a crock of shit. This is like the USA
building a Great Wall of China around itself for technology and the USA will
>eventually be left behind in the tech world.
>
>There is only one prerequisite for a patent to be approved in the USA...did
>they apply? This has been proven in many patent infringement suits in the
>USA to date. If you contest an Intellectual Patent, once they look at it,
>they overturn it. This is typical of spending the 4-5 hours on each case.
>They don't know Jack about the product.
>
>
>> There's an interesting article in Arstechnica about patents:
>>
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>> Here are some "fair use" snippets:
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>> > routinely at or near the top of the heap when it comes to number of US
>> patents obtained in a given year. . . . Wall Street loves it when
>> companies file patents, since patent numbers can be used as an easy proxy
>> for innovation and R&D work . . . also make it easier to strike
>> cross-licensing agreements with other companies .
>>
>> These things don't "promote innovation," . . . The result has been
>> predictable; a surge in bad applications. Over the last 40 years, the
>> USPTO
>> granted 62-72 percent of all patent applications, but that number has been
>> dropping. In the first quarter of this year, only 43 percent of
>> applications
>> have been granted.
>>
>> The problem might be fixed by raising the barrier to filing an
>> application,
>> possibly by raising the price (one government official proposed a $50,000
>> fee per application), >>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds like a $50,000 fee would be the death knell for small business
>> innovation!
>>
>> --
>> Bobby G.
>>
>>
>>
>
...Jim Thompson
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