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by kazagistar 4717 days ago
If the patent office cannot do this work themselves, they should offload to the private sector: small bounties for prior work, paid out of a fraction of the filing fee. It costs a few hundred dollars to submit a patent... thus, they could easily afford to give out a hundred or so for each comprehensive dismantling.

TLDR: Give people financial incentive to destroy patents, and they will be ALL over it.