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Doubling the tax each year will make the tax non-trivial for even the largest corporations in reasonably short timeframe. You may want to check what e.g. my initial proposal (1000 bucks first year, double that annually) would yield in say 30 years.



Makes sense. Sorry for my miss the first time. :-)

So what this means is that the small players would give up before the big players even though the invention otherwise took the same amount of investments or has the same potential for reward back.


The shape of the exponential curve makes the time difference between small and big players giving up relatively small (if that difference exists in the first place.) Both have reasonably long time with reasonably low patent tax to develop the commercials before the tax starts really kicking in. The tax with my initial numbers breaks one million USD p.a in 10 years and 10 millions in 14 years.


Yes, the math is already understood. :-)

Your proposal does seem to carry some weight. While I see some non-idealities in it, but then I don't have a better solution that's practical.

I'll think some more about your idea; I just need to consider various scenarios with it.

Thanks.




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