Comment by ndriscoll

What IP? It seems pretty obvious to me that it's not:

  * trademarks (not using the mark)
  * patents (what patent?)
  * copyright (the code and models are all different, and machine outputs lack creativity and are not copyrightable) 
  * trade secrets (any member of the public has the same access to input/outputs. They're not accessing any secret)

So what is "IP" here?