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by TimPC 1107 days ago
They aren't making a noticeable change to the system at all. This method challenges roughly 350 patents a year while roughly 300,000 patents are granted per year. That's in the area of 0.1% of all patents. I think these numbers are very consistent with the predominant use case being the challenging of bad patents and there are very few examples of people trying to overturn good patents.
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The percentage of total patents is irrelevant as not all patents are actively abused by patent trolls.