计算机软件专利保护可行性探讨

Study on Feasibility of Patent Protection for Computer Software

由于计算机软件离不开算法或者逻辑运算,因此它被认为是一种数学方法而被列入智力活动的规则和方法范畴,给予版权保护但不给予专利保护。然而,由于版权保护的是作品的表达形式而不是作品的内容,因而这对于计算机软件来说显得不够充分。部分国家已经逐渐尝试并实施对计算机软件提供专利保护。研究对我国现行的法律、法规、行政规章等进行梳理,旨为探寻对计算机软件进行专利保护可行性的理论依据和法律保障。

As computer software can not be separated from algorithms or logic operation, it is considered that it should be attributable to a mathematical method and thus to the rules and methods of intellectual activity areas that should not be given the patent protection, but the copyright protection. However, copyright protection for computer software seems inadequate, because copyright protects the expression of the work, rather than the content of the work. To this end, some countries try to implement a gradual patent protection for computer software. The paper tries to find the patent protection for computer software and provide a theoretical basis for the feasibility and legal protection after a good study on Chinas existing laws, regulations and administrative regulations, etc.