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Patenting statistical techniques? Can you say WTF?
- chewxy 14y agoIt's a pretty common statistical technique - random sampling, and he wants to patent it. WTF?? Anyone thinks this is madness?
- halad 14y agoAgreed, the article itself reads almost like a piece of satire.
- pjscott 14y agoThe patent in question: http://www.google.com/patents?id=avgEAgAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=VADIVELOO&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NvC1T8qHBemyiQLM6MnwBg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA http://www.google.com/patents?id=avgEAgAAEBAJ&printsec=f... And yes, it does look like he just took fairly common statistical methods, added a bunch of awkwardly-worded stuff about how it's financial data, and you're storing it in a computer memory, so that makes it special. Or my interpretation could be off; it's not exactly a miracle of clear writing.
- chewxy 14y agoMy question: would Prior Art be considered?
- guan 14y agoIt looks like there’s a second patent with the same title: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8131571.PN.&OS=PN/8131571&RS=PN/8131571 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
- camkego 14y agoCan I say jackass here?