Let's help kill software patents
I came across
this post by Joel Spolsky
about a new Stackexchange site called
Ask Patents for
finding prior art of patent applications. This is an excellent
idea. If we all analysed one patent a day, most patents
applications would be thrown out. Why? Because there is almost
always prior art, it's just the patent examiners aren't able to
find it due to the way the applications are written.