Protection Of Software-Related Inventions In Mexico

It is well known that software-related inventions and particularly computer programs can be protected by means of copyright. The ground for granting such copyright protection to computer programs resides on the fact that they may be considered in some manner as comparable to "literary" works.

However, certain types of very important inventions that cannot be regarded as duly protectable by means of copyright, inasmuch as they also include functional characteristics. Copyright protection of the software or computer program which forms the basis of such inventions has been regarded in general as absolutely inadequate, because even though the computer program could be protected through copyright, the practical application of the invention itself would not be protected in a straightforward manner at all.