India is saying there is no patent because software isn&#x27;t tangible like hardware or anything physical would be. If the patent involved hardware and the program or software it is covered because hardware is tangible.<p>For example the Apple iPhone uses custom chips for things like encryption and security. So in India they would accept the patents.<p>India doesn&#x27;t see business methods, software, and mathematical method as valid for patents because they are not tangible in real life but more like information.<p>If they are part of hardware or some physical device that is tangible they can issue a patent.<p>This is quite different from the US Patent office, and most likely India did it to give small companies access to the same information that big companies use by refusing to patent their software unless it is associated with hardware. If it is all software, anyone can use it.<p>This is a big attack on companies like Microsoft that use software patents to sue other companies. Suddenly in India, they can no longer do that unless it is tied to hardware in some way.