Multiple routes available to protect IP of mobile apps

In today’s world, there is nothing which one cannot do with one’s mobile phone and the wide and creative array of mobile applications (apps) available. With everything only a click or swipe away, they have made life much less demanding than at any other time in recent memory. Mobile apps do magic not only for consumers but for their developers too. For even small and start-up innovative organizations, one of the biggest income generators is the improvement of different mobile apps.

A mobile application is nothing but software developed specifically for use on small, wireless computing devices such as smartphones and tablets. However, the more important and serious issue for mobile application development companies is legal protection of their apps.

Since there is an app for every other purpose in the market today, it becomes crucial for a developer to create something more innovative and seek proper protection for the app. Mobile apps can be protected under the various categories of intellectual property (IP) rights depending on the nature of the application.

Manisha Singh Nair is a partner and Zoya Nafis is an associate of LexOrbis