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		euid on Dec 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port o... If you are able to view this, it is a "United States Patent Application Publication" that is found by following the `view pdf` button on the above link: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=patentimages.st... Searching on the USPTO website returns no related patents: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html The indication, to me, is that the patent has not made it past the application process.

bchociej on Dec 21, 2014 [–]

USPTO's PAIR website indicates that the application was rejected for non-patentability. I'd link it but PAIR doesn't do permanent links. Go to the main page at [1] and type in the application or publication number.

[1] http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair

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