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Patents provide intellectual property protection for algorithms and business processes. Many questions about patents are beyond the ability of a programmer to properly answer and are off-topic for the site. AskPatents.SE should be considered after reviewing their site guidelines.

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How to protect yourself from being sued by patents?

From my limited understanding, previously published works cannot be patented. If you just want to be protected from some else patenting your idea in the future, and have no care about IP protection, p …
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