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The recent rapid development of information technology (IT) are dramatically changing not only the methods to process enterprises' internal tasks, but also modes of trading and even the businesses themselves. Recently, accompanying the spread of personal computers and the upgrading of social infrastructures, such as the Internet, inventions related to new methods of business using general-purpose computers or existing networks, etc. have rapidly increased. Because of this, the number of patent applications for internet-applied inventions has been increasing. However, under the current Korean legal system there are no proper remedies that are able to protect the internet or software related invention. therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide information on a number of key elements to give effective patent protection for software-related invention.