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Designs Act Reforms and the Future of GUI Protection in India
Introduction : If you open up any banking app, a designer will have made numerous visual decisions along the way for example, where the icons are placed, what the transition effects look like, and how the colour scheme directs the viewer's attention. Just as carefully as one would shape the curve of a car's dashboard, these design choices were made, yet Indian law dealt with them in a different way. Section 2(d) of the Designs Act, 2000 only covered physical "articles", which
Aug 148 min read


Beyond the Tangibility Trap: Analysing the Shift from Physical Articles to Virtual Design Protection for GUIs and Metaverse Icons in Light of NEC Corporation (2026)
Introduction: The Evolution of User Interfaces from Functional Code to Aesthetic Asset Historically, the legal and technological views of User Interfaces (UIs) were created by a purely functional paradigm. In the early days of computing, the interface was simply a utilitarian medium; several command-line prompts were used to connect the human mind to the machine. However, the fundamental shift towards Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) has changed how we think about UIs. Today,
Jul 307 min read
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