السماح بعمليات الهندسة العكسية لبرامج الكمبيوتر المحمية بحقوق الملكية الفكرية

الملخص EN

Companies are assessing how to protect their software algorithms as a trade secret, so they think about the best way to prevent competitors from reverse engineering their products.

Trade secrets law does not in itself protect computer programs from reverse engineering, but contract principles can do this.

When implementing contract items, software companies will do their best to avoid a blanket ban on reverse engineering, but the selective prohibition on reverse engineering for certain purposes, such as developing direct competition products, appears more likely to survive judicial scrutiny.

Selective prohibition seems to be compatible with modern texts in copyright law; it does not directly conflict with any law, and it appears to avoid the most important public policy concerns in terms of reverse engineering.