Title is slightly misleading. From the article, it sounds like they're just applying the usual standards for software patents to Beauregard claims. If this is t

Title is slightly misleading. From the article, it sounds like they're just applying the usual standards for software patents to Beauregard claims. If this is the first time that's happened, that's pretty interesting... but it seems to me to be clearly the right result, and I didn't realize there was any serious debate about that question.