The Gore Awards - The Dummest Patents of the Year (Score 1)

Someone should set up a competition for the least valid patents of each year. Nominations could be made by anyone and would form the primary post of a slashdot-like discussion forum. Users could then contribute to the debate about each patents merits and then vote for which ever they thought was worst. You would probably have to have a final voting stage for the top 10 nominations to eliminate any timing bias. The competion would be called the Gore Awards in honour of the man who invented (and yet did not patent) the internet. I have of course thought about patenting this idea itself but this could lead to the it winning its own competition which would surely lead to charges of bias.

Seriously though, I'm sure that such a competition would draw a fair bit of attention to the problem of obvious ideas being patented. If something like this already exists (the 'idea' is actually a 'memory') please post saying where it is. Otherwise how about some preliminary nominations?

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