Especially the cynical practice of filing known-baseless patent suits as described in the article. That behavior should get the company heavily fined, and land the responsible corporate actors in prison.
Prison seems fairly harsh. There are legitimate disagreements about what a patent covers, and to throw someone in prison over that would be ridiculous.
I'd agree with this. But maybe some kind of restriction on asserting patent claims when organisations repetitively make claims that don't stand up. Something to penalise this behaviour.
Agreed. Penalties should be in the same form as the motivation: money, and lots of it. Sufficient to make people think twice about asserting a bogus patent again; the amount they claim in damages would be a good starting point. Lose a suit claiming $100m in damages, pay that amount to the winner.
Yes, that's arbitrary, but less so than East Texas patent awards.
