That was once true about software patents, but it's no longer true. I've seen some legitimately interesting / intellectually surprising software patents get den

That was once true about software patents, but it's no longer true. I've seen some legitimately interesting / intellectually surprising software patents get denied not because they weren't novel or industrially useful, but because they lacked an inventive step. Inventive steps are hard to come by if math isn't patentable and the fundamental principles of software creation aren't really changing.