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Broadness is not a bar to patentability, as long as that breadth doesn't read on other claimed art or is obvious. There might be other reasons to invalidate the
by bsbechtel 8y ago
Broadness is not a bar to patentability, as long as that breadth doesn't read on other claimed art or is obvious. There might be other reasons to invalidate the patent, but that's not one of them.
- hn_throwaway_99 8y agoGiven that the parent said "facebook basically has just patented statistical classification if its output are socioeconomics?", I think the commenter's point is that the breadth does include things that have massive amounts of prior art and are thus obvious.