Found this article and thought some of you would either be enlightened or enjoy the read as it will provide a general summary of patent issues surrounding the AI space. As a result, I am happy to see Poet securing its many patents however, in the absence of a little more disclosure, the challenge for the shareholders is to know whether or not anything is worthy of protecting.
http://business.financialpost.com/executive/patenting-intellectual-property-for-artificial-intelligence-as-complex-as-some-ai-code
Hogan