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dlwh on July 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Victory Lap for Ask Patents

Make the prior art fee scale up by number of patent applications submitted by that entity, then. First one's free. Then $100, then start growing at some small-ish exponent.

pbhjpbhj on July 23, 2013 [–]

Then you get shell companies and such being used for patent filing making it harder to establish who really is in control of the applications.

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