Leveraging Design Patents to Protect Graphical User Interfaces
Protecting the "Look and Feel" of GUIs, Understanding Current U.S. and Global Prosecution Practices
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide IP counsel on protecting graphical user interface (GUI) in the U.S. and worldwide. The panel will examine the advantages of design patent protection over other forms of IP and offer best practices for obtaining meaningful design protection for GUI.
Outline
- A brief overview of U.S. design patents
- Current trends in user experience
- The legal context for GUI design protection in the U.S.
- Examples of U.S. GUI design patents
- Advantages of design patents over trademark and copyright in the U.S.
- Global protection strategy: obtaining design patent protection for GUIs outside the U.S.
- Enforcement of GUI design rights in the U.S. and abroad
- Protection of designs used in augmented reality and virtual reality
Benefits
The panel will review these and other critical issues:
- Best practices for the protection of GUIs in the U.S. and globally
- Update on recent cases involving claims of infringement of design patents for GUI designs
- Protection for user interface designs of the future
Faculty
Tracy-Gene Durkin
Director
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Ms. Durkin heads the firm’s Mechanical and Design Patent Group. With nearly 30 years of experience obtaining... | Read More
Ms. Durkin heads the firm’s Mechanical and Design Patent Group. With nearly 30 years of experience obtaining and enforcing IP rights, she has a deep understanding of utility and design patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Ms. Durkin has been an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Law School and has spoken internationally on topics such as the interplay between design patents and trade dress, and protection of user interface and the user experience. She is currently a Vice Chair of the Industrial Designs Committee of IP Section of the ABA.
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Robert S. Katz
Principal Shareholder
Banner Witcoff
Both nationally and internationally, Mr. Katz is considered one of the premier practitioners in the field of industrial... | Read More
Both nationally and internationally, Mr. Katz is considered one of the premier practitioners in the field of industrial designs, leading the way in the procurement and enforcement of design patents. On behalf of the firm’s clients, he has helped procure more than 10,000 design patents in the U.S. and more than 30,000 design patents/registrations outside the U.S. and has helped to successfully enforce over 100 design patents. Leaders from foreign design patent offices have consulted with him regarding industrial design policies, and he has served as an expert in design patent litigations. Mr. Katz holds leadership positions in several professional organizations, including ABA, AIPLA, FICPI and INTA. He is the past Chair of INTA’s Designs Committee and Vice President of FICPI’s U.S. Section. For the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, he currently serves as Liaison to FICPI. He also serves as a member of the Industrial Designs working group of the AIPLA Special Committee on Legislation. Mr. Katz is a former Chair of the Industrial Design Section for both FICPI and AIPLA, and also a member of IDSA and IPO.
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