Of possible interest re patents
prof_braino
Posts: 4,313
By way of the the kids at Pumping Station 1:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/09/askpatents-com-a-stack-exchange-to-prevent-bad-patents/
"This is really interesting.
USPTO, StackExchange and Google are working together to basically crowd source the vetoing of ridiculous patents. The interesting thing is that USPTO were the ones who instigated this - they seem to acknowledge how broken things are right now."
http://patents.stackexchange.com/
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/09/askpatents-com-a-stack-exchange-to-prevent-bad-patents/
"This is really interesting.
USPTO, StackExchange and Google are working together to basically crowd source the vetoing of ridiculous patents. The interesting thing is that USPTO were the ones who instigated this - they seem to acknowledge how broken things are right now."
http://patents.stackexchange.com/