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Stephen Downes

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We have another entrant in the litigation lottery as yet another obscure company that produced essentially nothing with whatever knowledge it had claims to have invented and patented the idea of recommender systems and has launched a lawsuit. The patent was issued in the U.S. last August. Business method patents expire in 17 years; the nonsense, it seems, does not expire.

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