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ARTICLE · 24 JUNE 2015

Protection Of IP Rights For Mobile Apps

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Mobile Applications enable many businesses to be contacted with greater ease and at any time the customer wants.

United Arab EmiratesIntellectual Property
Manel Said
Manel Said

Mobile Applications enable many businesses to be contacted with greater ease and at any time the customer wants.

The investments involved in developing such apps are minimal. Is it worth protecting your mobile apps if getting protection takes longer than producing the app itself? The present article will explain the key tools that can be used to protect Apps from those looking to copy them and will highlight why protecting your mobile application through these tools is worth-while:

Patents

Whether mobile applications are patentable is a question that has been debated for some time. Mobile applications are nothing but software running on a mobile hardware and interacting with various servers. Each country has different criteria for examining patent applications based on computer implemented inventions or software based inventions. There is no one answer as to whether a mobile application is patentable in a particular country or not.

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