Protecting Your Mobile App : Intellectual Property Solutions.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (108 pages)
Intro -- Foreword -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Industry and Legal Ecosystem -- Industry overview -- Relevant intellectual property legal ecosystems -- Summary of relevant legal systems -- Code and Architecture Protectability -- The making of software -- Intellectual property rights systems and business impact -- IP protection and the cloud -- Summary of IP rights and app code and architecture -- Legal and Business Aspects of Protecting Interfaces -- Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) -- IP protection and impact on GUIs -- Summary of IP protection for GUIs -- Functionality -- Introduction -- Copyright law and functionality -- Functionality and patent law -- Functionality and laws against unfair competition -- Practical implications and considerations of protecting functionality -- Summary of app functionality and legal protections -- Non-IP Legal Considerations -- Introduction -- End-user license agreements -- Data protection -- Privacy -- Consumer protection -- Advertising -- Digital rights management and technical protection measures -- App developer agreements -- Summary of non-IP legal considerations for app developers -- Global Challenges -- Copying and emulation risk mapping -- Conclusion.