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skorgu
on Aug 17, 2011
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Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written ...
It would provide the correct result of the algorithm which should be enough. Useful is outside the scope of patents (AIUI, IANAL).
bartonfink
on Aug 17, 2011
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Actually, utility is one of the core requirements for a patent in the U.S. Whether or not PageRank on a tiny data set is still "useful" would be a ? for the patent office, but if it were deemed not useful, that would be grounds for denial.
wisty
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I think whole point of patents is they are a registered solution to a problem. So I think usefulness is within their scope. But IANAL either.
skorgu
on Aug 19, 2011
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It's not usefulness as we know it:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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