Patent and Trademark Resource Center at Oklahoma State University: Mobile Apps
Protection for Mobile Apps and Video Games
- Intellectual Property and Mobile Applications, WIPOIntellectual Property Toolbox for Mobile Applications Developers
A Guide to Data Protection in Mobile Applications
Open Source for Mobile Apps
Video games: Many people register the underlying programs, which are literary works. However, there are registrations for sound recordings and performing arts, which would cover aspects of the music and performance in video games.
Mobile App Center at OSU
Apps
Apps are mostly protected by copyright and trademarks
See The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development, Protecting Your Intellectual Property, Copyright © 2011 by Dave Wooldridge, with Michael Schneider
“A copyright is a strong and affordable means of protecting your app’s content and code, but copyrights protect creative expression of ideas; they don’t protect the ideas themselves.”
“I believe trademark represents an iOS developers’ most affordable and effective means of fending off competitors... Trademark doesn’t protect concepts or ideas, but it can protect the logo or name that you give your app, if that logo or name is distinctive enough. Trademarks are a way to keep other developers from exploiting the goodwill you establish with your app or concept.”