The RCIS talked about the patent protection of computer technologies

Today, computer software developers primarily use copyright — the program code is protected in the same way as literary works are protected. Izvestia was told about this in the Russian Center for the Turnover of Rights to the results of Creative Activity. The initiative on patenting technical solutions is aimed at ensuring the full legal protection of IT developments.

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The industry today is looking for new ways and methods of solving various practical problems using computer programs, the RCIS emphasizes. And each such method, algorithm, and computational model has its own value, regardless of which program code it is implemented in.

"It can be bought, sold, become the basis for the uniqueness of any particular software and high prices for it. Therefore, in the IT sphere, patent law is needed on a par with copyright," the press service of the center reports.

However, it is important to understand that legally the concept of "invention" is still associated with objects of the material world. Because of this, the computer industry is forced to describe its technical solutions through material objects such as a processor, memory, computer input/output device, etc., listed in the RCIS.

The bill, approved by the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation for the first reading, eliminates this restriction. He explicitly states that it is possible to patent solutions designed to be implemented exclusively in the form of software code. Getting rid of redundant "material" structures will make it easier for all IT companies to obtain patents for computational models and algorithms.

You can learn more about the patent protection of computer technologies from the Izvestia material.

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