TL;DR: Prediction is that Alice claimed an abstract idea under 101; software and computer-implemented patents are not per se invalid.
Relatedly, see Prof. Crouch on the Alice oral argument, and recent Fed. Cir. case he discusses right here, Digitech v. Electronics, on patenting a data structure.
See also Richard Epstein on the Bilski case, the reasoning is still pertinent. FT article on the issue is gated.
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