It s the very lack of understanding of scientific method and evidence among much ofthe legal profession that is a problem here, and the evidence of this programme is that this could be pervasive.
But what makes Sorger's method stand out is the difference in how it approaches theproblemof scaling to the human body: the Swift scales, where other bicycles may simply get taller without increasing the wheel base.
Therefore, any patent that claims a methodof solving a problem by programming a general-purpose computer is, like the patent the high court struck down 40 years ago, effectively a patent on a mathematical algorithm.