"He also points out that the decision seems to ignore two rulings by the US PTO Board of Patent Appeals, Ex parte Langemyr [PDF] and Ex parte Wasynczuk [PDF], which already held that "A general purpose computer is not a particular machine, and thus innovative software processes are unpatentable if they are tied only to a general purpose computer," an issue this court seems to view as still to be decided by future cases. And hopefully that is just what will happen next."

Hoffe, das hilft weiter.