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

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has increased flexibility in how ornamental designs for computer-generated interfaces or icons, e.g., GUI designs, are presented in design patent ...

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MATLAB, short for Matrix Laboratory, is a high-level programming language and software environment developed by MathWorks. It excels in numerical computation, data analysis, and algorithm development.

“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 ...

Enough with passive consumption. UX designer Cliff Kuang says it’s way past time we take interfaces back into our own hands. If you took a walk in Hayes Valley, San Francisco’s epicenter of AI froth, ...

User interface (UI) design is currently experiencing a transition from traditional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to systems designed to recognize a person’s gestures and movements. Hence, in this ...

Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse. When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things ...