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Re:DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed by BillyWM on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:39PM (#17269017)
"when the research in these domains has been openly published and built upon by the community already"

Well, mega-corps like Google lobbied for a first-to-file system (America Invents), for one thing. Community shmunity; whoever has the most resources to file the most applications wins.

Re:DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed by webmaven on Saturday June 09, 2018 @04:10PM (#17274733)
FTFY:

> whoever has the most resources to file the most applications soonest wins.