Like you can get a loan or advance against annuities and settlements now?

Where the _best_ of these will take fifty per cent as a fee?

Sounds a great deal.

If half of all patents are known to be bogus then yeah, that'd be a fine deal.

So as an escrow company I should also fund the creation of bogus patents to increase the rates of my business model

This makes no sense, because the only reason a higher proportion of bogus patents would increase the interest rate charged is because it would increase the risk that the patent returns very little in revenue (the higher interest rates aren't increasing profit, they're covering higher risk).

I think what'd you'd actually see is specialist patent funding actuaries and patent evaluators making an interest rate bid dependent on the actual patent and inventor in question, much the way insurance industry works. The direct competition would be business loans, and maybe that'd be essentially what they were - secured business loans.

A friend sold a company to a Dot Com for stock at its peak. S/he factored the strike price. During the waiting period, the stock tanked. So, s/he got significantly more than what the stock was worth.