On March 12, 2026, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) released new guidance[1] (the “Guidance”) that updates prior USPTO ...

For technology companies navigating the increasingly hostile terrain of software utility patent protection and Section 101 rejections, design ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight A graphical user interface (GUI) allows users to interact with graphics ...

Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...

The Calcutta High Court recently held that icons, menus and screen layouts on phones and computers can qualify as registrable “designs” under the Designs Act, 2 ...

It wasn't just cost and Moore's law. The graphical user interface -- now known as the GUI ("gooey") -- is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous. Its friendly icons and ...