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[Article / Unfair Competition Law] Interpreting “has been shown the trade secret” in Article 2(1)(vii) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Yusuke Yoshihara, Patent, May 2025)
A conditional Theory C (expansion of the secrecy-management theory) is proposed.
[Article / Unfair Competition Law] Practice and theory of preservation of evidence in IP cases (Takashi Takamura, Patent, June 2025)
1. Choice of jurisdiction District courts with specialized IP divisions tend to have low grant rates of around 40% (Tokyo District Court IP division statistics). The article's author, however, has achieved a 100% grant rate by applying to summary courts and recommends using them.
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[Article / US Designs] New obviousness standards for US design patents (Masato Sasaki, Patent, June 2025)
The CAFC en banc judgment of May 21, 2024 (LKQ) abolished the Rosen–Durling test, used to assess US design-patent obviousness for over 40 years. ⇒ Design patents will now be subject to the four factual inquiries (Graham factors), as utility patents are. 1. Previous standards: The end of the Rosen–Durling test
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[Article / Unfair Competition Law] Infringement risks from using another company's trade secrets brought by a job changer (Takayuki Ishimoto, Patent, October 2025)
1. Four defensive measures for IP and legal personnel ① Pledge upon joining (warning) Obtain a pledge expressly stating that no confidential information from the previous employer will be brought in. This also evidences that the company does not tolerate misconduct.
[Article / Patents] Examination of clarity assessments in recent court decisions (Kentaro Okada et al., Patent, June 2025)
Clarity assessments cannot be said to have become stricter than before!! 1. Expressions of degree such as “substantially” and “approximately” Example held unclear
IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Gyo-Ke) 10036 [Chip detection device] <Honda>
*Revocation of a trial decision granting a patent was sought. ⇒ Action dismissed as inadmissible. In the appeal against refusal of the patent application, the plaintiff sought a trial decision reversing the dismissal of an amendment, reversing the original refusal based on that amendment (Amendment 1), and allowing the patent.
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[Article / Patents] Use of AI in patent examination (Yasuhiro Igarashi, Patent, August 2025)
Practical patent-examination tasks were tested using cloud models (GPT, etc.) and on-premises models (Llama, etc.). Introducing generative AI presents distinctive challenges absent from conventional AI. Addressing hallucinations: Limiting tasks to reducing information (summarization) or transforming it (translation), rather than increasing it (creative answers), effectively minimizes risk.
[Article / Chinese Patents] Support requirements for numerical-range limitations in China (Chunfeng Hu and Jun Lin, Patent, September 2025)
<Supreme People's Court of China, (2020) 最高法知行終407> 1. Consideration of the Supreme Court judgment Patent: A numerically limited invention combining charge cut-off voltage (over 4.2 V up to 5.8 V) and positive/negative electrode ratio (1:1.0–1:2.5).
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[Article / European Patents] Differences between Japanese and European patent systems requiring attention (Kazuhiro Nomura, Patent, September 2025)
1. Claims ① Independent claims Japan: No limit.
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[Article / UK Patents] UK litigation over FRAND-rate determination: InterDigital v Lenovo (Kazuto Kobayashi, Patent, September 2025)
<Main issues> ① Was InterDigital's final proposal (5G Extended Offer) FRAND? ② If not, what was the specific FRAND rate?