The Peer to Patent Project is a pilot program to enlist the technological community in the patent review process. To date, the US Patent and Trademark Office has practically rubber-stamped any software or business-method patent that crossed its desk — no matter how obvious, trivial, or non-inventive it was.
Peer to Patent invites you to examine pending patents, discover prior art that invalidates or narrows their claims, and hold the USPTO accountable for its reckless creation of monopolies over the ideas that underpin life in the information age.
They're reviewing one hell of a patent application, Microsoft's Off-line economies for digital media, which includes, among other things, "recording a sale" in the scope of the monopoly it seeks.
