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> To protect giant companies against small startups that are trying with all of their might? I'm not so sure.

They ain't doing it now either.

I think more useful model might be shortening it (5 years for anything but medical and such ought to be enough to monetize most) and enforcing profit share into patent law itself.

say 20% of the revenue on the product divided to the owners of patent used (excluding subsidiares and other related entities of company using patent).

Then the original "inventor" (as joke as it is in software...) gets not only the money but also good profit margin advantage over big corp to market