[D] Patenting in ML

For those of you researching on the frontier of ML theory or applications in academia or industry, how often are you filing for patents before you publish or market the product? I know google and others have patented things that seem like algorithms, but are written into patents as an application or a computer system. How prevalent is it when you are breaking a SOTA advancement?

I see some other threads that suggest software patents aren't that enforceable: [\[D\] Can …

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