Expert: Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. - 9/14/2009

Question
I'm designing a Website which will have a link that can be downloaded onto a computer in order to aid an organization to perform a business task.  Is there anything that I can copyright or patent to protect any portion of this app. or process.  Please fill in the blanks if you get the jist of what I may not be explaining correctly.

Answer
Hello Bob ...

Thanks for the eMail and question .....

I would recommend a number of things that you can do:

1) In the script code of the application place a copyright statement and a patent applied for statement if you have applied.

2) You can also place a watermark within the page for further identification.

3) You can also use services that constantly search out for copyright violation. There are a number of them freely available.

4) Of course you can have the potential client agree to not to copy at the initial download stage like a number of software and new apps do but that definitely slows things down but it does give you some sort of piracy control ....

Check out the tools in: http://www.ResearchResources.info/

Check out: http://www.PrivacyResources.info/

This should start you on your path to knowledge discovery .....

eCheers

Marcus

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