> A method shouldn't be patentable just because it's too boring for a human to perform a mindless computation over and over again. That's not the effect here,

> A method shouldn't be patentable just because it's too boring for a human to perform a mindless computation over and over again. That's not the effect here, it doesn't ensure patentability. It's excluding the low hanging fruit of tasks that can obviously be done by a human. Maybe we want to exclude the large class of obvious and simple methods from patentability, but simplicity is hard to decide in a general way for any given algorithm. With this test, we can quickly make that decision for a special subset of those obvious and simple operations, the ones that are so obvious and simple that they can be done by hand. I think it's a tiny incremental change, maybe that deserves criticism: it doesn't go nearly far enough. But hey, the law grinds fine, and exceedingly slow.