A Graphical User Interface is a computer interface that allows users to interact with a device through graphical elements such as pictures and animations, as opposed to text-based commands. GUIs are ...

“In its Notice, the Office recognizes the critical importance of digital designs to the modern economy and has updated its guidance to reflect reality.” For years, design patent practitioners dealing ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer. The CHM has gained Apple's ...

Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.

“While patenting a website’s computer implemented methods presents tricky Section 101 issues, the GUI’s of those sites are surprisingly easy to patent via design patents.” A common question I get is ...