2023 (Ne) 10071 [Chip Fuse] <Miyasaka> — No equivalence
日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Inventive step, Motivation and teaching away, Doctrine of equivalents First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-07-05 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12858729219.html 2023 (Ne) 10071 [Chip Fuse] <Miyasaka> ⇒ Doctrine of equivalents: not establ
2023 (Gyo-Ke) 10020 [Steel Pipe Pile Pier] <Honda>
日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Inventive step, Support requirement First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-07-02 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12858354238.html 2023 (Gyo-Ke) 10020 [Steel Pipe Pile Pier] <Honda> *Although the specification described only examples under p
2023 (Gyo-Ke) 10057 [Spray Products] <Honda>
日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Creators and inventors, Working of inventions First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: July 1, 2024 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12858278372.html 2023 (Gyo-Ke) 10057 [Spray Products] <Honda> Examples were added at the time of filing Priority App
Deletion of All Claims Is Permitted in the JPO’s Q&A
Deletion of all claims is permitted in the JPO’s Q&A. I should therefore keep it in mind as a last resort for satisfying the requirement of restriction of claims in the parent-child-grandchild divisional-application problem. https://www.jpo.go.jp/faq/yokuaru/shinpan/document/inde
The JPO’s “Toward Strategic Intellectual Property Management” (2007)
I came across this sentence: “Propose research and development themes based on the ‘problem’ sections of other companies’ published patent applications.” Was this a novel perspective in 2007? Could we now conduct such research using generative AI? https://www.jpo.go.jp/resources/
Osaka District Court, 2022 (Wa) 3344 — Method for Producing a High-Purity PTH-Containing Lyophilized Preparation (Takemiya)
① ★ “Suppressing contact with ozone at 0.1 ppm or less” in Claim Limitation 1C need only be achieved by some method. ⇒ Satisfied. ② ★ Novelty / inventive step affirmed on the basis that the purpose differs from the prior art. * If “suppressing contact with ozone at 0.1 ppm or les
Compilation Copyright — Legal Protection for Works Distributed in Parts over the Internet (Takuto Hirasawa, 2009)
* IP High Court judgment of June 23, 2008 The images were not distributed as a daily tear-off calendar. Instead, once a week, images for nearby dates were excerpted and distributed. ⇒ No infringement of the right to integrity of the compilation work. Infringement of an “expectati
IP High Court, 2024 (Ne) 10010 — Women’s Clothing: A Late Invalidity Defense (Nakadaira)
* A new invalidity defense raised in the statement of reasons for appeal was considered late. (This would leave virtually no room to make any new argument beginning at the appellate stage….) (Excerpts from the decision) The appellant’s assertion of new grounds for invalidity in t
Article — Scope of Review in Patent Trial-Decision Revocation Actions: New Arguments on Well-Known Technology
The Supreme Court’s January 24, 1980 judgment in the “Food Packaging Container” case held that, because judges do not possess knowledge equivalent to that of a person skilled in the art, new allegations and proof of publicly known technology are permissible to establish the commo
Trademark Appeal 2024-278 — “AONO” Does Not Fall Under Article 3(1)(iv)
Applied-for trademark: “AONO” Does not fall under Article 3(1)(iv). The surname “Aono” (青野) ranks 797th or 849th, with 20,000 people and 6,000 households. ⇒ Nationwide, the number cannot be regarded as particularly large. https://www.jpo.go.jp/system/laws/rule/guideline/trademark
