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Re:Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Bas... by jsizzle on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:14PM (#18465295)
Is there a real advantage for them to patent this as opposed to keeping it a trade secret? Why would they patent this and make their intentions known publicly?
Re:Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Bas... by gradys on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:22PM (#18465353)
My thoughts exactly. It's easy enough to hide infringement of a patent like this that I doubt they'd ever be able to enforce it anyway. Did they forget that journalists scan patent filings, especially from big, newsworthy companies?