[whelchel]

This is an amalgamation of ideas I’ve read and may be totally from elsewhere, but I think a good approach here would be to handle this more dynamically.

Every patent is taxed at some arbitrary rate - say 3% a year. The catch is the patent holder decides how much it’s worth. Low value means low tax. However, whatever value you pick is an open price for licensing by anyone else.

Ultimately, use it or lose it. If you don’t think it’s valuable and someone else does, the world still benefits.

Tune the tax percentage based on how much you want to hurt patent trolls vs impact on actual long term R&D