Legal Protection Of Graphic User Interface Design

In March 2014, the intellectual property office of the "Patent review guidelines" was revised, it will include Graphical User Interface design into patent protection.Breaking the previous protection of the Graphical User Interface is not clear the situation.However, due to the Graphical User Interface than other exterior design for the carrier correlation is not, so if use full of the existing provisions regarding design constraint to the Graphical User Interface will have some problems, such as Graphical User Interface design object of protection is the "product" or "design";Included as a new Graphical User Interface design protection in practice how to apply; how to solve different overlapping Graphical User Interface of intellectual property protection, and Whether it should be part of the design system is introduced for the protection of the Graphical User Interface.As the "patent examination guidelines" just modified, these are practical problems to be solved by the modified.In this article I will learn from other countries and regions for the protection of the Graphical User Interface exterior design experience combined with China’s actual problems and strive for more than sorts. This article is divided into four parts:The first part describes the definition of Graphical User Interface, which includes a general definition and the newly revised "Guidelines for Patent Examination" in the definition. And introduce the Graphical User Interface of the main types of products and what types of products can apply for the Graphical User Interface design.The second part is to introduce current situation of the United States, European Union, Korea, Japan,and Taiwan of the Graphical User Interface exterior design for legal protection.The third part describes the current situation is under our Graphical User Interface design of legal protection and legal protection barriers and how to deal with the reality of the situation of the applicant.The fourth part is how to eliminate our Graphical User Interface design legal protection barriers and accompanied by a "patent examination guidelines" changes to China’s "Patent Law" will be changed.