[gbog]

An idea that might help in killing patents: Have one daily sticky post on HN (ala job post) with a short description of a pending patent and a link on where to post prior art. It is very likely some reader will be able to provide this prior art.

[SomeCallMeTim]

At 40,000 software patents per year, it would require 110 posted patents per day to actually stop them, or a significant fraction of that to make a serious dent.

One a day would be less than a 1% reduction in software patents. We need to shut them ALL down.

[option_greek]

Good idea. And this patent can be one that hasn't received any answers for sometime and is overly broad.