If I understand this correctly, the court decided that the programming part is an implementation detail therefore it is not the primary subject of the patent claim. As a result, the judge reasoned that the claim is not primarily to a computer program, thus not invoking the exclusion .
Sounds fair to me. If the actual invention claim is patentable is another story though, it's just that being implemented in code doesn't make it a computer program automatically.
Sounds fair to me. If the actual invention claim is patentable is another story though, it's just that being implemented in code doesn't make it a computer program automatically.