%0 Journal Article %T Program and Data Protection: Copyright, Patent, Trade Secret and Trademark %A Sarika Choudhary %A Ritika Saroha %A Kavita %A Yatan Dahiya %J Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering %D 2013 %I Engg Journals Publications %X The study of this paper will describe the perspective view of legal issues and propose the alternative approaches to protecting software. Some legal issues like copyright, patent and trademark are used for providing the security to the data and computer software. The main motive of this paper is to aware all the authors about the protection of data and their programs. %K infringement %K legal %K protection %K products %K invention. %U http://www.ijcse.com/docs/INDJCSE13-04-03-098.pdf