1. You submit an idea and if there's any doubt about its originality, the idea is forever placed into the Public Domain. You cannot rescind an application.
2. If prior art can be established and you've (stupidly) taken any legal action against so-called infringement, you must pay 1000x what you were awarded in damages.
Seems to me like these ideas would discourage flagrant "patent everything" behavior, and would make people think twice about suing over ideas that they -know- are not really original, just patented.
If you're an Amazon shareholder, the last thing you want to do is buy anything from them since they lose money on every sale! So, in fact, instead of boycotting Amazon, we should all go -buy- something from them! >-)
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How about these ideas for patent reform:
1. You submit an idea and if there's any doubt about its originality, the idea is forever placed into the Public Domain. You cannot rescind an application.
2. If prior art can be established and you've (stupidly) taken any legal action against so-called infringement, you must pay 1000x what you were awarded in damages.
Seems to me like these ideas would discourage flagrant "patent everything" behavior, and would make people think twice about suing over ideas that they -know- are not really original, just patented.
If you're an Amazon shareholder, the last thing you want to do is buy anything from them since they lose money on every sale! So, in fact, instead of boycotting Amazon, we should all go -buy- something from them! >-)