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> ArrivalStar and Jones are making a direct play for taxpayer money, something that most patent trolls have avoided until now.

Surely, surely, this must provoke change? Now it's directly affecting tax payers people won't stand for it?

A "find prior art for this patent" website, with various gamification style badges and points could be insanely popular. Especially if it was accessible in small chunks on smartphones (so people could do 5 minutes of noodling while on a bus for example) and it had Facebook integration.

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> ArrivalStar has even taken the bold step of suing the US Postal Service

You don't fuck with the postal service.

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The patent (I think)

(http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...)

> A "find prior art for this patent" website, with various gamification style badges and points could be insanely popular.

It's been done. http://www.articleonepartners.com/

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