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Applicants paying for patent review
What this entry documents is not a solution.
This practice may be ineffective or useless in the long term.
ESP's position is that abolition of software patents is the only solution.
A suggestion for reforming the patent system is to require that patent submitters pay for evaluation of their application.
Pay per claim
In the USA, there is a surcharge to be paid for each claim after the 20th.[reference needed]
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External links
Two examples by FFII:
