With the increase in patentable subject matter rejections, particularly in the business-method and e-commerce art units, copyright deserves renewed attention as a means of protecting software and websites. While copyright generally protects only the expression of the software and websites, e.g., the code itself, such protection can arise automatically and copyrights can also be inexpensive to register.
Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP