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Support Vector Machine algorithm threatened by patent enforcement
- hardboiled 15y agoI thought mathematics couldn't be patented?
- zkan 15y agoI guess the algorithm can be. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo..., SIFT is already patented.
- zkan 15y agoAnyway, I think Vapnik owns a patent for SVM. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5950146/fulltext.html http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5950146/fulltext.html
- parrisj 15y agoWow, I'm torn between laughter and sadness. Laughter because svm's are used everywhere, seriously google scholar returns 1.5 million papers mentioning support vector machines. Good luck suing everyone of those. And sadness, although unlikely, this could have a huge chilling effect on Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, etc.