What Do UI Designers Think About Protecting Their Designs?

Marcus, Aaron

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6744-0_9

Aaron Marcus⁴

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User interfaces are intellectual property that can be protected. Do designers know what the rules are? Do they care? A survey of professionals looks at what they think.

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Thanks to Mr. Hirokazu Kobayashi, deputy director of the JPO, for allowing me to publish information from the survey on current UI designers. Also, my appreciation to the respondents, who granted me permission to use their names and statements in this chapter.

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Marcus, A. (2015). What Do UI Designers Think About Protecting Their Designs?. In: HCI and User-Experience Design. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6744-0_9

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