We need a prior art database
Last week I visited Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. Mark Cuban and Minecraft creator Markus Persson had recently funded an additional staff attorney position, the “Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents”.
Considering this after I got home, I had an idea about an additional angle from which to attack this problem.
What if there were a sort of “prior art database”? Where people could submit and find information about first-use or discovery of techniques—whether patented or not?