Author(s)

Lei Dai¹, Dong Guo², Hao Qin²

¹Patent Affairs Administration Department, State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C., Beijing, China.
²Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China.

The recommendations to patent protection of computer program-related invention in China are analyzed. They mainly focus on the following points: There are some contradictions in guideline for examination and thus the protection scope of computer program-related invention shall be enlarged. Meanwhile, in consideration of the balance between inventor and public, the reasons for shortening the term of protection for computer program-related invention were given. Finally, emendation of publication rule of computer program-related inventions was suggested.

Recommendation, Patent Protection, Computer Program, China, Scope, Term, Rule

Dai, L. , Guo, D. and Qin, H. (2017) Recommendations to Patent Protection of Computer Program-Related Invention in China. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 146-149. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.56013.