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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Brazee) writes: > I'm trying to figure out how to use computers in this function of the > patent office. It would have to know how to find software patent > ideas under a different name, to look at graphics, and use foreign > databases. Someday computers will be able to do that task, but > possibly not until after patents have outlived their usefulness. there is some lore that (at least some) patents are apparently purposefully mis-categorized ... as part of strategy for subsequent litigation. I've seen some past references to bayesian cluster analysis of patent applications ... that found possibly 30percent of computer &/or software related patents filed in other categories. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
