Samuels [of the EFF] also argued that "merely tying an abstract idea to the Internet" isn't enough to render it patentable. "Everything we're doing is online" t

Samuels [of the EFF] also argued that "merely tying an abstract idea to the Internet" isn't enough to render it patentable. "Everything we're doing is online" these days, she said. Under the reasoning of the original Ultramercial decision, people can "take all kinds of abstract ideas, say it's happening on the Internet, and get a patent." This covers so many bad patents in the wild right now... Make it wireless or put it on the internet and suddenly it's a new idea/invention. BS.