[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade secrets, etc.]
Osaka District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 12720 [Building component: K-type frame] (Presiding Judge Matsuami) <1> No grounds for return of retirement benefits
[Article / European patents] Pitfalls of contributory infringement
(Vincenzo Jandoli, AIPPI Vol. 71, No. 3) Where components sold in its own country by a company outside Europe (e.g., China) are later incorporated into finished products that infringe a patent in Europe (e.g., Italy), this may constitute "contributory infringement."
IP High Court, Case No. 2024 (Gyo-ke) 10077
[System for providing massage-related services] (Presiding Judge Nakadaira) It is appropriate to interpret "program code" as meaning "instructions, data, etc. created using an artificial language for the purpose of having a computer interpret or execute them"; it is not limited to source code.
[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Notification of false facts]
IP High Court, Case No. 2024 (Ne) 10043 [R badge] (Presiding Judge Masuda) ⇒ Does not constitute notification of false facts.
[Design] IP High Court, Case No. 2024 (Gyo-ke) 10108
[Packaging container / Partial design] (Presiding Judge Masuda) ★ A judgment clarifying whether a partial design and an overall design can be registered as related designs, and the difference in the scope of comparison in assessing novelty!! <Comparison with the principal design: related design, Article 10(1)>
[Trademark] Appeal No. 2025-3433
Applied-for trademark: "タイロン" (figurative mark) Cited trademark: "TYRONE" ⇒ Not similar
IP High Court, Case No. 2025 (Gyo-ke) 10037
[Cross-sectional image detection apparatus] (Presiding Judge Hasegawa) *Inventive step denied
[Copyright] Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 70626
(Presiding Judge Takahashi) 1. The text of articles prepared by Kyodo News (the plaintiff) and distributed to newspaper companies does not fall within "miscellaneous news and reporting of current events that are merely communications of facts" (Article 10(2) of the Copyright Act), and qualifies as copyrighted works.
Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2024 (Wa) 70509
[Action objecting to a decision on an application for an order to disclose sender information] (Presiding Judge Takahashi) = Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2024 (Wa) 70570 (Presiding Judge Takahashi)
[Trademark] Osaka High Court, Case No. 2024 (Ne) 1885
[MAJESTY] (Presiding Judge Morisaki) <Sale of the defendant's products manufactured by another company, as they are> The first-instance defendant Marushu purchased them from Erimu Trading with hangtags bearing the defendant's mark attached, and that sale itself does not constitute trademark infringement.
