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ARTICLE · 23 MAY 2023

APIs & IP Protection

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Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become one of the most important features in the modern world, it is a very smart mechanism that allows software that has been designed...

United Arab EmiratesIntellectual Property
Ayman Al Ashry
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What are APIs?

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become one of the most important features in the modern world, it is a very smart mechanism that allows software that has been designed by different programmers for different purposes to work together in very smooth harmony. It is simply allowing our favorite apps to let us create and log in with our accounts which already exist on Google, Facebook, and Instagram, in another language, the APIs can talk to other systems on the web and get the required information we need to be shown on our favorite apps such as weather applications, the app is using the APIs to get the weather information from different systems using the user credentials.

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