Comment Incentives (Score 1) 175
The PTO should be punished for issuing bad patents. Say, if a patent is invalidated by court, PTO returns the patent fee to the owner, and PTO must pay the plaintiff's attorney. Make it expensive enough for them that it hurts more than doing the job proper to begin with.
It is all about incentives, not the price of patents. Someone will always have enough to buy their ridiculous ways.
