Support Vector Machine algorithm threatened by patent enforcement(svmpatent.blogspot.com)

9 pointsby reinhardt15 anni fa4 comments

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Support Vector Machine algorithm threatened by patent enforcement

http://svmpatent.blogspot.com/2011/07/patenting-algorithms.html

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Wow, 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.

zkan15 anni fa

Anyway, I think Vapnik owns a patent for SVM. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5950146/fulltext.html

hardboiled15 anni fa

I thought mathematics couldn't be patented?

zkan15 anni fa

I guess the algorithm can be. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo..., SIFT is already patented.