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I've seen software patents get both rejected and approved. It is by no means a rubber-stamp process.

As holder of a US patent on a purely software "invention" (aka, some game I wrote) I can categorically state that the only way it could have been granted was that it was rubber stamped because it is just a lot of talk about the algorithms I wrote, executed on a portable game system.

Out of curiosity, why did you get the patent?

CEO loved the idea of getting a patent because he thought it would make us look impressive and it would defend us in advance if someone else made a similar thing and tried to attack us with their own BS patent.

Makes me sad when i consider the comparison with my grandfather's multiple rounds of back and forth with the PTO fighting to finally get a patent on a mechanical device. Comparitively yes, they rubber stamp software patents because they clearly dont understand the art. They kind of understand more traditional (aka real) inventions.

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