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[Article / Chinese patents] Points to note when claiming priority in China—focusing on a Chinese Supreme Court judgment (林軍, 胡春豊, Patent, December 2023)
Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む [Article / Chinese patents] Points to note when claiming priority in China—focusing on a Chinese Supreme Court judgment (林軍, 胡春豊, Patent, December 2023) Chinese Supreme Court, (2019) 最高法行申 No. 12487 1. Case outline The application was rejected for lack of novelty (self-collision) based on earlier application 134. 2. Chinese Supreme Court’s findings: Priority denied (1) Method-step limitations (risk of generalization) Earlier application 134
[Article / Patents] Same patent and reference, but different novelty findings in IP High Court judgments by the same division on the same day (a trial-decision revocation action and an…
Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む [Article / Patents] Same patent and reference, but different novelty findings in IP High Court judgments by the same division on the same day (a trial-decision revocation action and an infringement action), with a correction-based rejoinder dismissed as untimely (Hideki Takaishi, Patent, March 2024) The trial decision rejecting invalidation identified a difference: the invention’s “information provision apparatus” was a single apparatus, wh
[Design] Case No. 2024 (Gyo-ke) 10108
Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む [Design] 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)> The design in the application is a partial design covering only the flange, whereas the princi
