Re: Perfect Opportunity
You misunderstand, I just need a reason to raze Luxembourg. There's someone there who won't come out, and they won't let me back in after last time. So, in keeping with long accepted traditions, I'm proposing using the flimsiest of pretexts to justify my entirely self centered needs by citing 'public good' as the motivator for my actions. Success in any endeavor is largely a function of recognizing opportunities, and this is a rather unique opportunity I would hate to miss out on. I'm more than happy to donate the cattle afterward. If you catch it yourself you won't have to worry about any horse sneaking into your dinner.
No amount of cattle will fix the US patent system. Contrary to what politicians and 'business leaders' tell you, piling more bullshit onto an enormous pile of bullshit won't help anything. Software, 'machine instructions' I think is my preferred term, as that includes embedded stuff, have to be removed from the standard patent system altogether. Build a parallel system for software, or don't, it's irrelevant as long as software is out of the general system.
Capping damages is the second component. If malpractice and faulty medical devices, that result in death and royally fucked up lives, can have damage caps, then a headphone jack, or whatever should have caps as well. Capping damages is nice because the maximum can be set high enough to encourage small inventors but not be worth a full force corporate offensive. As it stands now there's zero chance of small entities winning an enormous settlement anyway. They simply don't have the resources to pursue it. But a $2m, or some 'reasonable' amount is about $1,950,000 more than most individual inventors will ever get from their patents anyway. So everybody wins, except the trolls, and fuck them.
Luxembourg can still do the right thing though. I know they're listening and I know they know who I want. It's not too late.