Wednesday 6 March 2019

How to Protect Your Valuable Mobile App Idea?

There’s no arguing the fact that entrepreneurs are leading the world to a better future. Needless to say, becoming a successful entrepreneur has a lot to do with a feature-rich and captivating mobile app. How? Well, the truth is if you can’t provide your customers with an engaging app, that they hook to 24/7 and find extremely useful, you’re less likely to be called as an entrepreneur.

Today customers are relying on mobile apps for everything. The demand for mobile apps has rapidly increased, making it compulsory for every business owner, especially entrepreneurs, to invest in mobile app development. However, before moving with the development process, it is important to protect your app idea from getting stolen.



If you have a completely unique app idea, you must know the efforts and hard work you put in to come up with the idea itself. Therefore, it is important that you protect this valuable idea so that no one can copy it. To do so there are two different procedures, i.e., either patent your app idea or copyright it. Patent and copyright are completely different terms and protect the app in different ways as well.

So, in this blog post, we have differentiated between copyrighting and patenting an app and how they protect your idea.

Copyright: 
Copyrighting an app means protecting the physical assets of your app. When you add a copyright to your mobile app, other people are restricted from using its source code and in-app elements. However, it doesn’t mean that anyone else cannot develop an app on the same idea. As long as their app doesn’t copy your source code or gaming elements, they are not under violation of the copyright. Copyright can be beneficial for apps which aren’t completely unique but are a mere upgrade over existing apps.



Patent: 
A patent is useful when for inventions, i.e, app ideas which haven’t been developed before. Patenting an app means protecting the app idea as well as its physical assets from getting stolen. While in a conversation with a team of mobile app developers, they explained why every unique app idea should patent their idea. However, patenting a mobile app idea is not an easy task and requires a lot of brainstorming. So, be ready to itch your brain while patenting your app idea.

This is the major difference between copyrighting and patenting an app idea. If you also have an app idea and have already patented it, hire a professional app development firm, which has the potential and desired skills to shape your idea into a functional mobile app.     

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