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My company just started promoting such a policy, and a guy on the business side mentioned filing a patent for some software I had written. Now the work is subt
by JackFr 8y ago
My company just started promoting such a policy, and a guy on the business side mentioned filing a patent for some software I had written. Now the work is subtle and nontrivial, but in terms of its novelty, it might be worthwhile as a lightning talk at a meetup, and I can't see it as patentable. It's all known techniques. Another person at the company assures me that this is very patentable, but maybe I just don't get it.
- dodobirdlord 8y agoThe patent office has historically been willing to give unreasonable patents for computer science innovations. I know of an individual who has a large number of patents that essentially boil down to "Use convolutional neural networks to identify X in medical images". Each time his lab applies the same known techniques to a new domain of medical images, he has successfully filed a patent for it.
- abledon 8y agoWow, stuff like this actually makes me like countries that give a big F-U to medical patents and release drugs to general population for small fraction of original (and highly out of reach for poor people) cost
- xyzzy123 8y agoWhat’s worse is, to some extent you have to do this or else at some point, someone will come along and sue you for doing the obvious thing you’re doing. I used to refuse to file patents. That attitude seems a bit petulant to me now after seeing the company receive some patent threats related to my area of work. Just filing the dumb patent is cheaper than defending, esp for large organisations. I now file bullsh%t patents too :(