Exactly, you can't patent 'the cure for cancer' without describing the cure, but somehow you can patent 'swipe to unlock'. If it didn't take serious research an

Exactly, you can't patent 'the cure for cancer' without describing the cure, but somehow you can patent 'swipe to unlock'. If it didn't take serious research and give the reader a decent insight that they wouldn't have had just by reading the title of the patent then it shouldn't be patentable. The equivalent of describing the molecule for a drug patent is providing the source code, which is already covered under copyright protection. Sounds like a good case to make software patents redundant