The Choice of Legal Protection Mode of Computer Software

Computer software is an information product [2]. Since the rising of the computer software industry during the 1960’s, the dispute into the best way to protect computer software has never stopped. Human society has already entered the information age, the development of the computer software industry is happening more rapidly than ever before. The application of using legal means to effectively protect computer software, is not only crucial to the development of the computer software industry, but also for national science and technology, the development of the economy is of great significance. This paper summarizes the present situation of international protection of computer software, based on the analysis of the quality of copyright law, patent law, and trade secret law to protect computer software and the analysis of the protected mode all over the world, put forward the author’s suggestions for the legal protection model.