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Software is abstract right down to the core. It's ineligible.

• spacemanmatt 12y ago
  You don't have to like it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/bad-day-bad-patents-supreme-court-unanimously-strikes-down-abstract-software https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/bad-day-bad-patents-su...
  • throwawaykf05 12y ago
    Software cannot execute without hardware. It literally needs the electrons to exist. Executing software is used to achieve practically useful results. It is not abstract in the legal sense of the word. You're thinking, like most people here do, of "abstraction", which is a key aspect of software engineering. But in patent terms "abstract" has a meaning more along the lines of "not a practical application".
    • spacemanmatt 12y ago
      Abstract means non-concrete. I wasn't using it in a special software-engineering sense. In patent terms, it also means non-concrete, it doesn't mean impractical.
      • throwawaykf05 12y ago
        How is it non-concrete if it requires physical hardware and achieves practical results?