Graphical User Interface (GUI) refers to icons, windows, and/or menus to offer a mechanism to interact with electronic devices visually. There has been quite a bit of debate around the registrability ...

GUIs in handheld devices are becoming more important, but remain hard to patent at the EPO. Anders Hansson of Awapatent suggests ways to avoid valuable research and development disappearing into the ...

In response to a growing demand for GUI protection in recent years, Tomohiro Gyoda and Taichi Sakai of Shiga IPO discuss the options available under the Design Law and the Patent Law In Japan, it has ...