“Frustration with the patent system is what prompted inventor, artist and MIT-trained roboticist Alexander Reben to create All Prior Art, a website that algorithmically generates and publishes patent-troll-like “prior art.”
If someone tries to patent an invention and the idea has already been published, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office won’t grant them a patent. Reben’s project is trying to cut down on the number of frivolous patents by publishing lots and lots of ideas, and he thinks his database could be used by patent examiners to challenge frivolous patents.” – Laura Sydell