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日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Designs, Patents Topics: Divisional applications, Indirect infringement, Partial designs First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-18 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12904118561.html [Design] Tokyo District Court, 2021 (Wa) 30281 and Other Cases, “Protectiv

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Reports and activities Category: Trademarks, Unfair competition law, Patents Topics: Trade secrets, Indirect infringement First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-10-03 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12869897875.html For Patent Attorney Oral-Examination Candidates — Questions o

日本語版 Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Indirect infringement First published on this site: 2026-10-10 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-10 IP High Court, Heisei 25 (Ne) No. 10007 — Stirring and granulating apparatus (Judge Shitara) *Two products delivered on the same day were found to have been sold as an integrated unit. → Direct infringement established! (Excerpt from the judgment, translated; portions omitted) The defendant’s produ

日本語版 Article information Article type: Case note Category: Designs Topics: Indirect infringement、Partial designs First published on this site: 2026-10-10 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-10 [Designs] A case recognizing indirect infringement of a partial design Tokyo District Court, Reiwa 3 (Wa) No. 30281 — Hand-pushing member for a transport cart (Judge Kokubu) 1. Comparison of the articles “The articles relating to the registered designs and the article relating to th

日本語版 Article information Article type: Lectures and videos Categories: Patents Topics: Indirect infringement / Claim interpretation First published on this website: 2026-10-07 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-10 [New on YouTube] May 28, 2025 (IP LAB) A read-through of the Encyclopedia of Patent Case Law (draft manuscript for the fourth edition), covering “(pharmaceutical) use inventions, the subjective requirements for indirect infringement, incorporating a purpose int

1. Direct infringement (35 U.S.C. § 271(a)) (1) System inventions (NTP) Even if some components (servers, etc.) are outside the United States, use is considered domestic if the system is “controlled and beneficially used” in the United States, with its benefits enjoyed there.

Korean courts tend to interpret territoriality flexibly, assessing infringement primarily by whether acts of working the patent occur in Korea, regardless of the location of servers or assembly. 1. Servers located abroad (1) Seoul Central District Court, 2007, 2006 Gahap 73442

(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."