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0 pointsJumpCrisscross3y ago0 comments

> a much more efficient method would be to make the rule that if a citizen finds prior art more than 5 years older than the filing of the patent, then the patent holder must pay $1000 to the citizen and the patent will be invalidated

This would instantly lead to every patent being constantly challenged by everyone. All the time. Since you've created a non-judicial venue for these claims and counterclaims to be settled, you've also created a parallel legal profit centre.

Vigilante justice is terrible not only for being gruesome, but also quite inefficient.

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silvestrov3y ago

Add: When you challenge a patent you must pay $100 in fee which you will get back (in addition to the $1000) when and if the challenge succeeds.

JumpCrisscrossOP3y ago

> When you challenge a patent you must pay $100 in fee which you will get back (in addition to the $1000) when and if the challenge succeeds

This does little to change the dynamic. Paying a few hundred dollars to harass one’s competitors, commercially and ideologically, is peanuts.

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