[hermannj314]

It would be awesome if when reading a news article on court cases or patents, that your browser could automatically inform you about the actual patent or court case given the content of the article.

But implementing that would probably violate Microsoft patent on 'Extensibility for context-aware digital personal assistant' or one of the millions of other patents. It is better to not make that feature at all I guess.

I am not sure how anything gets made, unless you ignore patents, and then see if you get sued. No way the typical start-up is cognizant of the millions of patents they could potentially be violating. It would be impossible to even try to keep that in your head when being creative.

[whydid]

Researching and linking these things was classically the job of the journalist.

[decremental]

The first thing that came to mind is the banner under YouTube videos that appears when YouTube wants to insert their point of view about something. "This video is about X. Find out more about X." Imagine the power one could wield if you controlled such a feature with wide adoption.