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Be careful of what you wish for, though. Powerful companies would most likely lobby for changes to patent law that benefit powerful companies.

For example, they might lobby to require the invention be a "real product", defined as N x 100,000 units or $N million dollars revenue. While that would eliminate patent trolls, it would also destroy small companies and individual inventors.




Why exactly would that destroy small companies or individual inventors?


because achieving 100k units or 1M in revenue in short period of time is beyond their abilities, duh?




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