1. Copyright protection. The State Council promulgated the "Computer Software Protection Regulations" in 1991 as a specific specification for the protection of computer software and strengthened the protection of software. According to Article 3 of my country’s current Copyright Law, works protected by copyright law include computer software.
2. Patent protection. Computer documents as written works can certainly be protected by copyright, but computer programs are not only written works, but also technical solutions. The protection of copyright law does not extend to the ideas, processing processes, and Practical technical parts of great value such as operating methods or teaching concepts. Practical technologies such as "ideas" and "operation methods" of computer software can be protected by patent rights.
3. Trade secret protection, according to my country's "Anti-Unfair Competition Law", computer software can be protected as technical information and become a trade secret after the right holder takes confidentiality measures. The contents of computer software protected as trade secrets mainly include computer source programs and development documents at each stage, including descriptions of program content, functional specifications, development status, test results and usage methods written in natural language or formal language. Text, diagrams, etc.