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"In sum, an innovative process is not patentable when operating on a single computer processor but is when operating on two processors, even though the Board re
by boredguy8 18y ago
"In sum, an innovative process is not patentable when operating on a single computer processor but is when operating on two processors, even though the Board recognizes that the process in the unpatentable claim 'is essentially the method' set forth in the patentable claim."
So you just move your data repository to one machine and your data processing to the other, and you have your patents back.
I really just don't understand how something like this happens. I guess "The Law" is a massively backwards-compatible system that makes computer architecture anachronisms look mild.