Nathan Myrvold has a patent factory project that goes quite a bit further than this. There was an interesting business week article on it a while back: http:/

Nathan Myrvold has a patent factory project that goes quite a bit further than this. There was an interesting business week article on it a while back: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_27/b3991401.htm http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_27/b3991401....