This is really great - some additional suggestions: - When you're submitting a patent application you are required to have done a prior art search and list fou

This is really great - some additional suggestions: - When you're submitting a patent application you are required to have done a prior art search and list found prior art. - law firms providing patent services often outsource prior art searches (more and more also to India etc) - companies attacked with "Jules Verne patents" or overly broad patents often pay large amounts to find most relevant prior art Suggestions: (1) alloy users to put up bounties for finding prior art on existing / pending patents or for technology areas. I believe bounties should be starting with about $5K up to $100k+ (2) pay out those bounties based on a particular formula - e.g. when usable results top 5/ best answers get shares of the bounty pool - e.g. best answer 35%, 2nd 20%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%, 5th 10%, 6th 10% (3) Similar to bounties this could also be done via a sponsoring system