A medical technology startup has developed a novel, high-performance algorithm for real-time cardiac arrhythmia detection. While the specific written code implementing this algorithm is automatically protected by copyright, the developers want to protect the underlying functional process from being implemented by rivals in their own code.
State one other method of intellectual property protection that can be used to legally protect this underlying functional process or technical invention.
35 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Ethical and legal, covering Ethical and legal issues of personal data, Issues of AI, machine learning and robotics, and Intellectual property protection methods. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.