"miraculously everyone will rush to build great products with razor-thin margins"
Not a very neutral reproduction of a hypothetical comment! I would even say that it is suggestive.
Not a very neutral reproduction of a hypothetical comment! I would even say that it is suggestive.
More seriously, rather than trying to only throw obvious ones out I would suggest applicants submit a bounty on each patent to be paid out when prior art is discovered. Or returned after 5 years. The patent office can then charge a small fee to compare prior art to a patent or patent application and it becomes expensive and pointless to submit most dumb patents without costing the taxpayers anything.