On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: > You gotta love those patents. As described in his talk at Sheffield > (http://cisrg.shef.ac.uk/shef2007/talks/ballester.pdf), Ballester et > al. filed a US patent on 25 May 2007 for Ultrafast Shape Recognition. > > Will this affect DistanceMoment? > (http://cheminfo.informatics.indiana.edu/~rguha/code/java/nightly/ > api/org/openscience/cdk/similarity/DistanceMoment.html)
Sheesh! I should probably give reading papers :( I can't seem to find a USPTO link for their patent but their J Comp Chem paper came out online on March 6th, 2007. If they filed after that, is such an application valid? It's easy to change the code to consider higher order moments, at the expense of time efficiency. But would that make it sufficiently different? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- How I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
