Legal Protection Of Design Patent For Graphical User Interface

Graphical user interface is attached to the visual presentation on the display screen as an image of an interface connecting the operating system, the user reach operating results by clicking on the interface icon. The design of graphical user interface is a image or the like shown on the interface.With the rapid development of smart products, graphical user interface design has become a new field of electronics manufacturers compete, then it need for reasonable legal protection. The mainly legal protection modes of graphical user interface are copyright protection, patent protection and design protection, graphical user interface is not appropriate for works and inventions patented, but suitable as a design patent protection. From the outside investigation,other countries are directly or indirectly legislative protect on the graphical user interface design; graphical user interface as the object of a design patent scope is narrow of the scope of Japan, the European Union and South Korea are widly range of the moderate; graphical user interface as the formal requirements for a design patent application includes a design one, text description and drawings. Our legal barriers of design patent for graphical user interface still exist, including the concept of design protection deviation, patent examination guidelines for product exclusions and energized produce screen designs on the part of the exclusion. The design of graphical user interface improve patent protection, firstly we can apply anti-unfair competition law and apply foreign design patents to protect, secondly is designed to improve patent protection legislation, that is deleted excluded from the provisions of the screen powered generation, timely introduction of some designs system, a clear graphical user interface design patent protection for the object, the object of determining the narrow scope and strict legal requirements.