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How can I get a patent/Copyright for the puzzle game I invented?
<p>I have invented a new puzzle game which I have able to play on paper.</p>

<p>However, I want to create a mobile app/web app to let other users play like other below games.</p>

<p>Example: Threes, 2048 </p>

<p>But being not a good UI developer myself, I was thinking to contact other UI developer. But if I tell the idea behind my game to them, they could ignore me and launch the game themselves.</p>

<p>How can i get Global copyright access for the puzzle game I invented?</p>

<p>Games can be protected by patent. You get some protection through copyright, but only on things like artwork and the precise text of the rules; someone could copy the ideas of the game with different artwork and not violate your copyright.</p>

<p>You would need a patent in each country you want to protect it in. In general patents are expensive and complicated. Here is some <a href="https://www.upcounsel.com/how-to-patent-a-game" rel="nofollow noreferrer">general guidance</a> on the relevant law in the USA, and how it applies to <a href="https://www.upcounsel.com/video-game-patents" rel="nofollow noreferrer">video games</a>.</p>

<p>If you hire a developer you can do so with a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). This is a contract requiring them to keep your ideas secret. Here is an article about <a href="https://www.everynda.com/blog/use-nda-mobile-app-dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">using NDAs when hiring a contractor</a>, but its a complicated area of law and you might be better hiring  a lawyer to draft one for you.</p>

<p>Ideas cannot be protected by either patents or copyright. </p>

<p>If you have a great idea for a game, and I hear of it, I can use that great idea myself. </p>

<p>What you want to do if you hire a software developer: Before you hire them, you don't tell anything about your idea that could let them copy it. If you <em>have</em> to tell them, then you make them sign an NDA (a Non Disclosure Agreement) so they cannot legally use your idea or give the to anyone else. </p>

<p>The downside of this is that a good software developer (with many opportunities open) might not even bother talking to you if you ask them to jump through legal hoops just to hear what the job entails. </p>

<p>Your employment contract would also contain a clause that prevents them from using your idea or telling others about it. </p>
