Patent costs Re your removal of the paragraph on litigation costs with modification comment This section is not about litigation Given that the Costs subsection immediately follows the Rationale subsection and is within a section entitled Economics I d have thought that litigation costs are actually more relevant than the costs of obtaining a patent in that I would guess that litigation costs are a larger cost within the economy based on the guess that more than about 32 1000 patents are the subject of litigation Accordingly I intend to re add the paragraph on litigation and will in fact consider moving the litigation paragraph to before the filing costs text I might also try to add brief mentions of other costs associated with granting patents See also Talk Patent Costs associated with patents feel free to move the above text to that section of the Talk page and reply there if you have ideas about how the information should be arranged Incidentally there was a typo in your nbsp change missing ampersand so nbsp appears literally in the rendering