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The 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
by dodobirdlord 8y ago
The 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 :(