US 2014
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International
В 2014 году Верховный суд США принял решение что нефиг патентовать абстрактные идеи.
The patents were held to be invalid because the claims
were drawn to an abstract idea, and implementing those claims on a computer was not enough to transform that idea into patentable subject matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_..._International