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inlawrev-23375	Dobias, Nicole L.	Protecting Software Intellectual Property After the Lexmark Decision	2019	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10479	645	60	Although copyright and patent law are codified, both the extent of patent law protection afforded to software9 and exhaustion of rights associated with patent and copyright law have been defined by the common law.10 In 2014, the Supreme Court increased the difficulty of patenting computer- implemented inventions, such as software, with its holding in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International.11 The Court held that implementing an abstract idea, such as a method or system, on a computer does not sufficiently transform the abstract idea into patent-eligible subject matter.12 Since the case’s publication, “Alice has proven ‘deadly’ for software patents.	cache/inlawrev-23375.pdf	txt/inlawrev-23375.txt