Intellectual Property
Protection of APPs
The registration of software and the intellectual property protection of computer programs, in their source and object versions, are covered by the Law 11.723 This obviously implies that software is covered by intellectual property law. This obviously implies that intellectual property law applies to software. The following may also be registered licence of use contracts.
The Intellectual Property Law 11.723 provides that “the lack of registration results in the suspension of the author's rights until the moment he/she registers the work, recovering said rights in the very act of registration, for the corresponding term and conditions, without prejudice to the validity of the reproductions, editions, performances and any other publication made during the time the work was not registered”.
On the other hand, it should be noted that in countries such as the United States it is possible to protect software inventions as patents.
Therefore, in each specific case and in view of the global expansion of these programmes, a special strategy will be required, a service that our firm provides with proven experience and efficiency.
