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No Stairway (Infringement) and the Importance of Shared Design Tools in Innovation

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The use of intellectual property (IP) to claim these tools can be problematic. For those who follow IP law, this is the tension behind the “abstraction test” in copyright and the recent Supreme Court software patent decision in Alice Corp. But first, consider that a song is a combination of different elements.

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