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by WalterBright 1585 days ago
Maybe a reasonable solution would be a patent filer would have to pay a registration fee of $1 million if the patent is approved.

So, you might say, only big business could afford to file patents. Not exactly, $1m is well within the reach of a startup.

But even for big business, they're not going to file 1000 patents at a cost of a billion dollars.

Patent trolling would become an untenable business plan.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/microsoft-still...