[bee_rider]

A bounty system for patent invalidation might be nice. An idea could be:

* When you get a patent, you put up a bond.

* If someone invalidates your patent, they get the bond.

* Otherwise, you get it back when your patent expires

An extra, funny, probably impractical idea is that when filing for the patent, you decide on the value of the bond. But, the value of the bond is the maximum payout you can be awarded for a given instance of infringement. So, you have to essentially 'price' the value of your patent yourself.

[Tostino]

Ah, an even more pay to win system? Sounds like it'll work perfectly and no one will ever abuse their capital to unethically tie up patents.

/s

[bee_rider]

If they are throwing money at patenting actually novel ideas, then they are using the patent system as intended.

If they are throwing money at the sort of ridiculous obvious patents that people here are complaining about, they are essentially funding an army of private investigators to go out and invalidate bad patents.