2.3 Patenting Software Applications

The controversy's craft (the exam's favourite): the software-AS-SUCH exclusions (the "programs for computers... as such" the European Patent Convention's exclusion (the TRIPS Article 27's all-fields tension)); the TECHNICAL-EFFECT route (the software-plus-hardware (the computer- implemented invention (the technical character's test (the EPO's craft)))); the US's swing (the Alice-type abstraction's line (the name-level)); the practical map (the algorithms unpatentable (the math's-and-the ideas' world (the copyright's field)); the software-driven devices-and-processes patentable (the technical effect)); the Nepali face (the PDT Act 2022's patent craft (the "as such" question's absence — the functional describe (the exam's honest note))); the business-methods' companion (the patent's-and-the method's exclusion debates).