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How is setting up a separate corporation for each patent different from setting upa separate corporation for each, say, office building? How much money is necessary to keep a corporation set up for these purposes from being underfunded? Do we really want to set that precident? Do we really want to require money to access the legal system? Keep in mind the business model is not to sue other companies. The business model is to create license revenue from the patent. Lawsuits are merely a way to settle disputes.


Yes, we really want to set that precedent. We already require money to access the legal system in certain cases.

You act as if this is a slippery slope where if we differentiate here we've given up the ball game. If that's what you think, well, that ball game was given up long ago. We already have different pleading requirements for different types of lawsuits, etc. This is all done to serve various end policy goals. The business model you give is not the end goal of patents. It's not clear why supporting it should be a policy goal, and as of right now, it isn't. The end goal is to encourage innovation as well as R&D, not to create license revenue. These are separate things.


The way patents encourage innovation is by protecting the profits of the holder. You can't have one without the other.

This scheme seems to be solving the wrong problem (The right problem is to answer the question "What is patentable?").




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