Copyright applications are not examined like patent and trademark applications. However, copyright applications may be refused if they do not meet the legal requirements under the Copyright Act, for example if the work is not subject mater eligible. “In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure,
process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.”