currentscurrents t1_j86uoft wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:01 AM

Reply to comment by eigenham in [D] Can Google sue OpenAI for using the Transformer in their products? by t0t0t4t4

Yeah, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank significantly limited the scope of software patents. It ruled that adding "on a computer" to an abstract idea does not itself make it patentable.

I believe that true inventions of real algorithms (like movie codecs) are still patentable though.

eigenham t1_j86v8br wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:05 AM

I agree that they should be, but in my experience it's been difficult to get algorithms patented that lawyers felt would actually protect IP. Basically they're not that well tested in court so it's yet to be seen how much protection they'll provide.