Software patents invalidated?!

PatentlyO reports that the Patent and trademark Office has ruled 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”.

But apparently, a narrower claim that “uses two computing devices” will still stand.  Sounds to me like a multi-threaded application running on a multi-core machine might qualify.

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