Trump Administration Weighs Charging Patent Holders New Fee to Raise Revenue - WSJ

Commerce Department officials are discussing charging patent holders 1% to 5% of their overall patent value, a shift that could dramatically increase fees, according to people familiar with the matter.

Patents are already expensive; there’s the filing fee but the attorney fees to get you through the complex process is through the roof.

Now the government is going to guess the future economic value of a novel invention?

This is stupid.

And the fees wouldn’t go to the debt as advertised; it just becomes a new slush fund.