Should the PTO consider the question of whether a professional patent applicant at some point, particularly when they may in the past, or even going to assign their patents. And I ask that because it's such a large discount that Isn't there money left on the table inappropriately? Unless we make sure that these heavy discounts are consistent with effectively the first time with a true micro inventor, not a sequential inventor of dozens or even hundreds of patents. Now, I think that's a good point. I would have to think about that more exactly what the definition should be of microentity and small entity, because I do think there could be a more careful definition to capture what we're really concerned about. (1:42:41–1:42:59)
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