Made up problem

> This whole problem was created to cater weird legislation of 4% of global population, causing headaches for all the rest. There's a lot of world outside USA, maybe it's time to start ignoring the outlier?

And if someone is prepared to take the risk, software patents are now pretty much unenforceable in the USA now. Quoting a (pro-patent) Supreme Court Justice in a Supreme Court decision is pretty much going to blow most cases out of the water.

Dunno which case or when (it was about when GrokLaw died (RIP GL - you are missed)) but one of the most staunchly pro-patent judges wrote - in a software patent case - a concurring opinion where he said that he could not conceive of any circumstance in which a pure program would pass the "eligible subject matter" test.

Okay, we don't have a ruling that software CANNOT pass that test, but we're pretty close.

Cheers,
Wol