[Patents] Re: On GPL Ideas and Limited Software Patentability

[srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

>blah blah blah .... and I will only patent it in small fragments,
>where each fragment will be useless for understanding how the
>algorithm works.

Don't waste your money, then.  Filing a partial disclosure as a patent
application will get rejected under US patent laws for not being
enabling.  And frankly, given the large body of data mining technology
already in the public domain, I doubt highly if your ideas could stand
the tests of novelty and obviousness.

But if your ideas are novel, unobvious and enabled enough to get a US
patent, please file and get the patent.  I even know some people who
might want to invest in such a company.  Glad to help out someone with
something really new and useful.

Greg Aharonian