[nancyhua]

I'm not an economist or a lawyer so wondering:

1) Should there be a penalty for people who file patents that obviously have a ton of prior art to incentivize people not to do this or to do more research?

2) Should there be a reward for people who discover prior art invalidating patent applications/ claims? The reward could come from a) people who are using the idea without holding the patent and thus don't want to get sued over the patent and are benefiting from the research, and b) the frivolous filers from 1).