Beating Back the Patent Trolls: Repealing a Major Tax on Innovation

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9 pointsmayneack1 comment

settling with trolls just motivates them to keep coming, leading to a world where 88% of patent cases filed against tech companies are brought by patent trolls and 82% of patent troll victims are small and medium sized businesses.

What about a tax on Non Practicing Entities, based on the degree to which they are non practicing? (Ratio of patent-generated revenue vs. other revenue and practical investment.) Let's make it more expensive to use patents to block innovation than to foster it.

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