I couldn’t get a real answer to this question. Can just the layouts be reused with everything else (i.e. overall design) being original?
I couldn’t get a real answer to this question. Can just the layouts be reused with everything else (i.e. overall design) being original?
If the case were that it weren’t, Path of Exile just to throw one example out there would have been piledrivered into dust by Blizzard for wholesale copying the UI layout for Diablo 2. Or better, Binding of Isaac for making an incredibly superficially Zelda-looking screen layout and despite being hugely popular, conspicuously not drawing the ire of the single most litigious batch of motherfuckers in the entire video game industry.
So, no, I’m pretty sure nobody can sue you for making a UI that looks similar to another UI.
I mean they can. Anyone can basically sue for anything. The bigger question is: Are you ever really going to be a big enough target for anyone to care?