HappySqurriel on 07 July 2008
Many people would not agree with this, but one of the easiest ways to limit patent trolling is to create a (reasonably) high fee to file a patent which is used to pay for the patent review process. Hypothetically speaking, if you had to spend $10,000 to file a patent and this covered the work that was necessary to see that no similar patents existed (and there wasn't any prior art) about 90% of these lawsuits would be eliminated ...
