Nothing you can do with a computer should be
patentable.
If the patent's only novelty is "with a computer", no
question about that. If the patent's implementation is not feasible without a
computing device, I have a hard time seeing that the necessary presence of a
computer precludes the patent.
If we, say, have an ingenious
modulation/demodulation technique for which the only reasonable implementation
is some sort of DSP equipment, does it mean it is not patentable?
Computing
devices are used a lot more than they were once, but should their
presence in sample implementation be enough to preclude patents?
That does
not really seem logical. At some point of time we can't patent any mechanical
device any more since it will be produced by CNC milling or 3D printing or
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