 Further elaborating on the usage of the term ‘per se’ in Section 3(k), the Court said,
“The words ‘per se’ were incorporated so as to ensure that genuine inventions which are developed, based on computer programs are not refused patents.”.Software-related inventions are patentable.To qualify as an invention, however, there must be "a creation of technical ideas utilizing a law of nature" although this requirement is typically met by "concretely realising the information processing performed by the software by using hardware resources".