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日本語版を読む / Japanese version Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Inventive step, Claim interpretation, Patent corrections First published on this website: October 2, 2026 Case number (as stated in the source): Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10010 Display and classification checked: October 2, 2026 (not a re-review of the legal analysis) IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10010 [Women's clothing] <Presiding Judge Nakadaira> * The first-instance judgment finding patent i

日本語版を読む / Japanese version Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Inventive step, Motivation and teaching away, Claim interpretation, Patent corrections First published on this website: October 2, 2026 Case number (as stated in the source): Reiwa 5 (Gyo-Ke) 10107 Display and classification checked: October 2, 2026 (not a re-review of the legal analysis) IP High Court, Reiwa 5 (Gyo-Ke) 10107 [Induction heating coil unit] <Presiding Judge Hibiki S

日本語版を読む / Japanese version Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Claim interpretation, Doctrine of equivalents, Patent corrections First published on this website: October 2, 2026 Case number (as stated in the source): Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10101 Display and classification checked: October 2, 2026 (not a re-review of the legal analysis) IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10101 [Lighting apparatus] <Judge Shoji> <Claim element A: Respective red, blue and green

日本語版を読む / Japanese version Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Claim interpretation, Patent corrections First published on this website: October 2, 2026 Case number (as stated in the source): Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10022 Display and classification checked: October 2, 2026 (not a re-review of the legal analysis) IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10022 [System providing inspection and analysis services] <Presiding Judge Miyasaka> As to the meaning and subject

日本語版を読む / Japanese version Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Inventive step, Motivation and teaching away, Claim interpretation, Patent corrections First published on this website: October 2, 2026 Case number (as stated in the source): Tokyo District Court, Reiwa 1 (Wa) 32779 Display and classification checked: October 2, 2026 (not a re-review of the legal analysis) Tokyo District Court, Reiwa 1 (Wa) 32779 [Clothing] <Presiding Judge Kokubu

Selecting a particular species without contesting the examiner's definition or limitation of the species creates a risk that non-elected species will be regarded as excluded from the claim scope. ⇒ As claim 73 was withdrawn without contesting the examiner's characterization, its features were held to have been excluded.

1. Claims ① Independent claims Japan: No limit.

From the description in Reference 2, the baffle cell itself obstructs and redirects fluid flow, corresponding to the baffle of the amended invention at issue. The baffle cell also includes a solid portion (solid domain) and blocks the flow path, so it can be called a solid wall.

In Japan, the 2016 revision of the Examination Guidelines strengthened protection for food-use inventions, but overseas, national laws and examination practices differ greatly. 1. Permissible claims ① US: Product-use inventions are not recognized; draft as methods. A use in the preamble often has no limiting effect.

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