Tech companies of every kind use graphic user interfaces (“GUI”) as a powerful differentiator of products, user experience, and branding. Companies are smart to leverage GUIs. It’s well known by ...

One of the earliest innovations in personal computing was the application of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as an intermediary between users and computer programs. This innovation made computers ...

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Recent patent cases have made it more difficult to obtain utility patent protection for some of the functional aspects of computer software. One way to, at least partially, overcome this is to ...

As a supplement to the background information on this patent, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “In summary, an embodiment provides a system for ...

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “In summary an embodiment provides a method, ...

This dispute began when the patent owner, Trading Technologies International, charged CQG with infringement of U.S. Patents No. 6,772,132 (“the ’132 patent”) and No. 6,766,304 (“the ’304 patent”), ...

Google patented “Graphical User Interface” from Dirson notes that Google was granted a patent today on its “graphical user interface” that most of us would call its search results page. Perhaps that ...

With the fast growth of the IT industry, SIPO recognised that there is a need to protect the creative work involved in designing GUIs for products such as mobile phones, computers and digital cameras.

Apple on Tuesday was granted a U.S. patent for the graphical user interface used in iOS which changes the "hit region" size of a virtual keyboard's buttons based on predictive text data. In an elegant ...

Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for a device control mode in which a user can interact with a multitouch display even when no content is being shown on screen, thereby saving battery life when a ...