Patent limits (Score 1)

Large corporations, which have lots of resources, would be able to patent anything imaginable with this system provided they do it first. It's to their advantage in order to stifle competition. I think the legislation should instead put a cap on the number of patents any entity (corporate or individual) can be awarded in a given year. This would force large corporations like Microsoft or IBM to concentrate on what they really think is innovative and likely to be worth licensing and only patent those; if they just throw up a bunch of patents to see what stick, they risk patenting something trivial or worthless and losing potential patents later on truly valuable intellectual property.