[mnutt]

The patents won't be killed if they're valid; it still has to go through the USPTO. Why do you think that killing those patents is not the right approach?

Your approach (if it worked) would just incentivize filing more patents to try to get bought out.

[mdsteph]

I agree that non valid patents should be killed. If a patent is valid perhaps its usefulness in monetary terms to the community is still worth more than the present value of what trolls and legitimate patent holders could expect to earn by holding it.

[Zigurd]

Aren't patents that issue assumed to be "valid" no matter how kafkaesque that might be?

[mnutt]

I was using 'valid' to mean that the community thinks they're valid, not to mean that the USPTO thinks they're valid.