Source: Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom
by Stephan Kinsella
“Industries dependent on the patent and copyright monopoly grants scream bloody murder any time someone suggests any slight improvement. … Now Trump has proposed changing the USPTO system to charge ‘patent holders 1% to 5% of their [patents’] overall patent value, a shift that could dramatically increase fees. … The new fee would be a much more exorbitant cost for some patent holders that would function like a property tax.’ And of course the entrenched IP interests and patent whores are already screaming about this …” (07/28/25)