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日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Europe Topics: Injunctions, Licensing, Abuse of rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-20 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12911615875.html [Article/Europe] Have Standard-Essential Patents Become Useless in Europe Too after the Long-Awaite

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Trademarks Topics: Licensing, Exhaustion and parallel imports, Abuse of rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-01-13 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12882329007.html [Article] Whether Previously Genuine Goods May Be Parallel-Imported after A

日本語版 Article information Article type: Publication review Categories: Patents Topics: Licensing / Divisional applications / Export controls and foreign filing First published on this website: 2026-10-07 Display and classification checked: 2026-10-07 [Article / Contracts] Agreements concerning the handling of joint applications, etc. (Katsumi Sakurai, Intellectual Property Management, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2011) Points to check • Existing agreements • Commencement of the agreement •

日本語版 Article information Article type: Case note Categories: Patents / Other Japanese law Topics: Licensing First published on this website: 2026-10-07 Display and classification checked: 2026-10-07 Tokyo District Court, Reiwa 6 (Wa) 70106 <Kokubu> * An obligation to grant a non-exclusive license under another person's patent was not performed. ⇒ Termination was effective. (Excerpt from the judgment, translated) Even where someone grants another person a non-exclusive license

日本語版: https://www.takaishihideki.com/single-post/linkedin-7511582614906929153-ja Article information Content type: Case note Categories: Other Japanese law Issues: Contracts / Licensing / Joint and several guarantee First published on this site: 2026-10-03 Display and classification checked: 2026-10-03 [Contracts] Tokyo District Court, Reiwa 5 (Wa) 70680 <Presiding Judge Nakashima> Claim for royalties and other payments under a patent license agreement ⇒ Granted (joint and se

An implied licence to use the trademarks was found, based on circumstances including the appellant's failure to raise objections for approximately 18 years to the appellee's unauthorized use of the trademarks (including “SUPER JET BUBBLE”). The appellant's representative and the appellee had cooperated in conducting related business for many years.

<Main issues> ① Was InterDigital's final proposal (5G Extended Offer) FRAND? ② If not, what was the specific FRAND rate?

(Presiding Judge Nakajima) [Issue 1] No infringement of the right of public transmission The subtitle translator undertook the translation work on an "all rights clear" basis.

[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.

"Mark Gonzales / Angel" (Presiding Judge Moritomi) (= First instance: Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 70127, Presiding Judge Shibuya) <Applicable law>