Re: [Patents] Cryptographic patent... and research.

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

>   - Patent office must actually achieve adequate levels of patent quality
> (I suggest 90-95% validity via the other 3 tests), for each subject matter
> to be considered statutory subject matter.

I find that a very good requirement.

The patent system as a whole should be challenged to reform within 3-5
years so as to ensure that the following 2 targets are achieved:

 1. 90-95% of all patents granted are valid according to PTO criteria
 2. 90-95% of all patents granted represent substantial investments
    which are difficult to recoup without a 20 year monopoly.

If the patent system fails to achieve this target in a reasonable
timeframe, it should be abolished.  In a time where workers are laid off
and pensions cut, we can not create a special zone of leniency for the
patent system.  What doesn't perform must go away.  The stringency of
reform must start from the rich, not from the poor.