Every taxi company in the world
is going to want your software. Explain how you would best protect your work??”patent? copyright?
secret?
There is no single correct answer to this question.
I would probably not use a patent to protect this program. First, such software may not be patentable.
If I wanted to patent the program, however, I would argue its patentability on the basis of its
connection to a real world taxi scheduler.
Another risk would be that filing for a patent would force me to reveal the details of my
implementation, and such details might well allow another to take advantage of my thinking,
while allowing the other to change his implementation sufficiently to avoid violating my patent.
Probably the best protection for me would be secrecy. I will simply keep my source code secret
as a trade secret. I will be obligated to maintain the secret carefully, exposing the source code only
to individuals who have a need to know, and I will have such individuals sign a non-disclosure
agreement with me first.
To protect the software that I sell, I will ship only object code, and I will copyright the object
code. Such copyright will make it illegal for my customers to copy the object code without my
permission.
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