Google and patents: what can be done better?

Current situation:

Google lost the auction for Nortel's patents to the alliance of other key players; Ahead there is an even bigger auction for InterDigital patents.

Google understands that it will not be easy to compete with alliances for patents, which creates a great danger to the development of Android.

Google itself claims that the software patents system has discredited itself, but continues to play by its rules and loses while.
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The reasons:

“The one who does not think about distant difficulties is expected close troubles”

• Software patents have long discredited themselves - it is impossible to create anything without violating them, but they are used for unfair competition.
  
  
• The risk of a successful alliance against Android has been visible for a long time, and then it will not be any better.
  
  
• The power of Google is to go your own way, change the status quo for the benefit of all, and benefit from it yourself.
  
  
• But Google decided not to go its own way, but to play by the rules of the existing system, which he himself considers unfair - as a result he loses.
  

What can be done better?

We argue - you need to change from the inside:

It is necessary to change the system of software patents.

But changing the patent system by law is unrealistic: for a very long time, a lot of interests are tied up.

Therefore, it is necessary to destroy it from the inside, not trying to change it formally.

This is exactly the way Google fits: the way a startup, from which it grew; availability of resources and weight, which will obviously be the way; strategy and reputation of the “corporation of good”.

A possible solution is to create a community:

Within the existing patent system, create a community in which the current system simply will not operate, and ensure its growth until it grows into the entire system.

That is, create a community that:

• Protects its members from patent attacks from outside
  
  
• Protects them from attacks on each other.
  
  
• Encourage existing members to invite new members and new members to join.

Community guidelines:

• Participants put their patents in a common piggy bank.
  
  
• Participants do not attack other participants and neutral external players.
  
  
• The community helps members with protection from external attacks - attacks itself, helps financially
  
  
• Participants finance the community according to their abilities - for small companies participation is free
  
  
• You can join the community very quickly.

What would have happened:

• The community would quickly take up most of the market, because the more powerful it is, the more profitable it will be to form it.
  
  
• More fair rules inside: for example, internal patents - quickly registered, with more competitive rules and very short duration
  
  
• The ground for changing the formal system - patents would discredit themselves, a very powerful player would appear

Can this be done? Yes, especially for Google

We need to do - the need for change will only grow. All startups seem complicated and impossible, and Google is able to do startups. And the scale is suitable - Google has long been no longer just software. And under the worthy idea there will always be worthy believing people.

How do you think?

What do you think about this option, do you see other radical options?