If this were to gain momentum, then I think the exact opposite would happen. Crowd sourcing is like a human map-reduce. The bad patent is "mapped" to people who

If this were to gain momentum, then I think the exact opposite would happen. Crowd sourcing is like a human map-reduce. The bad patent is "mapped" to people who know something about the subject and each searches independently sometimes sharing results. Analysis is done to "reduce" the result to provable prior art. Further, I think they should remove the award. I would do this for free. Sites that pay people to contribute almost always fail (think Mahalo vs. Wikipedia). Patent trolls affect all of us. This is something everyone could get behind. Edit: by "exact opposite" I mean crowd-sourcing could produce good results faster, with greater urgency, than any expert.