DM: RE: RE: Data Mining Patents

[Kurt Thearling]

Most lawyers worth their fee would have no problem patenting a novel
piece of data mining software technology.  Some patents might be
specific to a particular implementation (e.g., parallel processing) 
but
more general patents are possible.   I've also seen patents on
visualization techniques related to data mining.

- kurt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abraham Meidan [SMTP:Abraham@wizsoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 6:03 AM
> To:   'datamine-l@nautilus-sys.com'
> Subject:      DM: RE: Data Mining Patents
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm in the process of collecting a list of patents related to data
> mining technology and was looking for any help that you might be 
>able
> to
> provide.   I've found a couple from IBM and one from NCR but if you
> know
> of any others, I'd love to hear about them.   The results will be
> collected an put on my data mining web page.
> 
> Can a pure mathematical algorithm be patented?
> Abraham
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - kurt
> 
> http://www.santafe.edu/~kurt
>