This is insane
This legal logic requires the narrowest set of blinders imaginable to even consider it to be legitimate, let alone conclude that this is patentable. Lets hope that the conservative free enterprise wing of the Supreme Court is still not strong enough to legitimize this kind of reasoning. It cannot stand if we want a semblance of a healthy planet.
The patent system is already broken beyond fixable, as is evidenced by the software debacle. Perhaps this will be the impetus to overthrow the entire concept and replace it with something that more closely addresses the complexities of modern technology in ways that honors the inventors without destroying our economic system.
