Ah, yes. Another anti-patent troll. You know how I can tell? You telegraph it to others by spouting unsubstantiated opinions and, most of all, capitalizing the word "GARBAGE."

In addition, you completely ignore the topic of discussion, which is NOT whether a given claim should be rejected because it is obvious. It is the legitimacy of excluding from the class of patentable subject matter inventions relating to software because software is allegedly nothing more than the manipulation of symbols relating to mathematics.

Here is a well- reasoned view contrary to yours. In view of the fact that software bugs have killed people and the economic costs associated with buggy software have been between $60 billion and $180 billion per year in the U.S. alone, I think the arguments raised in the Duke University article advocating patents rather than copyrights for software deserve, at least, to be taken seriously.

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