It has been claimed that 90% of data in the world today has been
created in the last couple of years alone. Think about that. At 2.5
quintillion bytes of data a day that's a lot of data. So what
is happening to all this data and how might it be a driving force
behind a variety of future technologies?
From the outset, let us dispel the myth that software, whether
relating to big data or otherwise, is unpatentable. It can be
challenging but these type of inventions can be patented in the UK
and Europe where there is a credible technical effect. This is also
possible even if applied to a non-technical field where there is
something special about the implementation (think implementations
that result in fewer read/write instructions, which utilise
parallel processing etc.) For further information on this, in the
broader context of software and data, click
here for a related article by my colleagues.
