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		masklinn on Dec 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port o... Note that he has a patent on metaphone3.

bchociej on Dec 21, 2014 | [–]

Can you link to that? I've only been able to find rejected applications so far.

mikhailt on Dec 21, 2014 | [–]

As far as anybody can tell and based on his comments, no he doesn't have any patents. He mistakenly thought his algorithm was copyrighted and algorithms are not copyrightable in US and generally in many countries around the globe.

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