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Okt 25, 2016
Guangyu Zhang, Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd., China
This article first appeared in World Intellectual Property Review September/October 2016, published by Newton Media Ltd.

Protecting graphical user interfaces


Guangyu Zhang, Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd., China, This article first appeared in World Intellectual Property Review September/October 2016, published by Newton Media Ltd.A graphical user interface (GUI) refers to an interface presented as a graph or image in a display which links to an operating system. A user can perform an operation by clicking the graph or image in the interface. A GUI is protected under copyright and unfair competition law, and was acknowledged as a patentable design under the Chinese Patent Law in 2014 by notice No. 68 of the State Intellectual Property Office of China. After the notice was issued, Qihoo 360 obtained the first design patent for a GUI on August 14, 2014 and filed many design patent applications covering GUIs, leading a trend of protecting  read more