"T.S. Lim" wrote:
>
> Thanks much to all who have replied. Algorithms and software can
> be and have been patented (at least in the US). It appears that
> major statistical societies have no explicit guidelines regarding
> patent (?). Just hope that patenting statistical innovations won't
> become a new trend.
Same here.
Radford Neal wrote:
> Patents may seem like a good idea in theory, but the practice has
> become horrible.
See http://www.bustpatents.com/ for ample documentation of the above.
The "Patent Newsletter" distributed from this site via e-mail is one of
the few newsletters (if not the only one) that I actually read.
-- Petr
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