The siphoning off of PTO funds is a little-noticed but serious tax on innovation and job creation.
Erratum: Eric Savitz was the editor of this Forbes subsection; the author of the article is Paul Ryan (CEO of Acacia Research, not the Congressman).
Yep, they aught to keep the fees and hire a few more people that can sort out frivolous software patents.
The siphoning off of PTO funds is a little-noticed but serious tax on innovation and job creation.
If congresscritters want to do something useful about patents, they can get rid of the “business process” patents that gotten so out of control over the past couple of decades. That would go far towards clearing out that backlog of useless drivel.