Software Patents

Via The Death of Google's Patents?
"The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc."

This might be good news for world's idealists :) . I have a big issue with ideas being patentable. Or as a judgment cited in the article : process inventions generally are unpatentable unless they “result in a physical transformation of an article” or are “tied to a particular machine.”

Anyway, food for though... work is calling...