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I'm not sure who's better positioned to answer, you or Jeremy and I asked him already:

How are you thinking about the role of patenting at Answer.AI? How about handling tech transfer issues with universities?

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I've never been a big fan of patents as they've historically applied to software. But this is a public policy issue, not something an individual company can fix. So I've always been content to follow patent best practices, even when they aren't the most logical.

In terms of tech transfer, Jeremy has quite a bit of experience with collaborating with the best academic labs, especially in machine learning, so I expect we will do a lot of that kind of partnering.

Makes sense. We have to work within the system as we find it. Would be great to see the system evolve in a way that would support efforts like yours though!

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