Protecting your software or application name in India?

Planning, designing, developing, implementing and deploying a software application is a herculean task, let alone the money and efforts spent in advertising, branding and marketing.  Therefore, a software application may look simple, efficient and user-friendly to the users, but does have a lot of monetary and human efforts behind it. A software developer is successful when his work is recognized and appreciated by his customers and more importantly when they give due credits to his works by purchasing it through legal means.  This is at the end-user level.  What about mischievous competitors or hackers or competitors who may involve in acts such as creating serial keys, counterfeiting, distributing through peer-to-peer networks, etc. Ways to protect to your software? Patents - Patents can prevent a competitor...

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How do you feel when someone takes credit for your work?

How do you feel when someone takes credit for your work? It is not uncommon at work for your subordinates, co-workers, immediate supervisor, or boss, to take credit for the work you have burned the calories and spent sleepless nights for. When this happens during the course of your employment, you may choose to ignore this as you may end up at the least gaining some experience, if at all anything and at worst, there is another job out there. But what happens when you are an inventor or a business owner if someone uses your brand or business name or brain child for commercial gains? Can you take this lightly? Certainly not, right? How to register your trademark? If...

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