Maybe this can help you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_und

Maybe this can help you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur... It is difficult, as that article points out. But to suggest the non-patentability of software is "just hard to take seriously" is, well, just hard to take seriously, when the largest economy in the world is doing it.