Software Protection

Software Protection: Register and Defend Your Technological Innovation

PADIMA ensures your technological developments remain exclusive and profitable by registering your software and defending your rights against unauthorised copying and use. We protect your investment in innovation with our specialist advice on Software Protection and Intellectual Property.

Software Protection: Safeguard Your Source Code and Features

Why is Software Protection Important?

Software protection is essential to guarantee the copyright of the creator or developing company of a computer programme. It allows you to prevent unauthorised copying, distribution and illegal commercial use of your software, protecting your competitive advantage and your income.

Forms of Software Protection:

Software can be protected through:

• Copyright: protects the source code and programme structure from the moment it is created.
• Software Patents: software-based inventions, that meet patentability requirements (novelty, inventive step, and industrial application), can be patented.
• Trade Secrets: keeping the source code and features of the software secret can serve as a complementary protection strategy.

Software Protection Services at PADIMA:

• Advice on the most appropriate protection strategy: assessment of your software and recommendations for the most effective means of protection (copyright, patent, trade secret or a combination).
• Software Registration: management of your software registration in the relevant national and/or international intellectual property registries.
• Drafting and filing of patent applications involving software: assistance in patenting software-implemented inventions that meet patentability requirements anywhere in the world.
• Software licence agreements drafting: drafting licence agreements for the marketing and distribution of your software, ensuring full protection of your rights.
• Legal defence against software rights infringements: representing you in legal actions against unauthorised copying, piracy, and other illegal uses of your software.
• Software auditing and IP risk analysis: evaluation of your software protection and recommendations for improvement
• Technology and market surveillance: monitoring the market to detect potential infringements of your software rights.

Who is this service for?

• Software development companies.
• Tech start-ups.
• Research centres and universities.
• Companies in any sector that develop their own software.
• Individual software creators.

Do you need to protect your software and guarantee your technological innovation’s profitability? We can help you.