> 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?
From what I remember, you have X number of days to ensure the patent is filed after public notice. So frequently US academics will "race" like this to make simultaneous disclosure. That way they get the patent AND the paper. (If the patent is filed several months before the paper is submitted, the ACS can sometimes consider this "prior publication" and reject the manuscript.) I don't remember what X is, but it's probably something like 60 or 90 days. > 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? That depends on the "extension" of their patent. You make a claim based on what you've done that the work can be extended to other ideas/molecules/whatever based on obvious work to anyone "skilled in the art." (In normal words, the patent will claim that certain things are covered because any expert in the area (i.e., cheminformatics) could take the patent and extend it to higher orders. I can't find this particular application (probably not published yet?) so I can't help much. Cheers, -Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
