Dear all,
Recently, I notice that several Support Vector Machine related patents had been granted to the company- Healthy Discovery Corporation since 1990s. In particular, the patent "Enhancing Knowledge Discovery from Multiple Data Sets Using Multiple Support Vector Machines" were granted in US, Europe, China, Australia, India, Germany, Israel and Norway. Besides, another two patents "U.S. Patent No. 7,542,959: Feature Selection Using Support Vector Machine Classifier" and " U.S. Patent No. 7,805,388: Feature Selection for a Support Vector Machine Using Feature Ranking" should specifically protect the RFE-SVM method.
A message found in the internet (http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61600435):
"The company plans to initiate its new academic/research institution licensing program in the second quarter of 2011. Universities and research institutions that have reported the use of SVMs in published reports such as academic journals and conference proceedings will be contacted and offered a paid-up license against past and future infringement of the Company's patented technology for a nominal one-time license administrative fee plus a percentage of any revenue generated when the results of the SVM usage are licensed for commercialization. The program will begin first with admitted usages of the Company's SVM-RFE method. To date, over 30 U.S. institutions have been identified as using RFE through review of academic publications, with many of the reported uses relating to biomarker discovery and medical diagnostics. The Company plans to expand its licensing efforts to European institutions once all formalities have been completed for validation of the recently-granted European SVM-RFE patent. The program will later be broadened to other reported uses of SVM and other technology covered by the Company's patents."
I am wondering if these patents will indeed block the public use of basic SVM for data mining?
Best regards
Qinghua

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