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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, Patents Topics: Abuse of rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-06 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12908597417.html [Article/Trademark] Trademark-Related Judgments in the Reiwa Era (Kentaro Hattori, Patent News, February 14, 2

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

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Trademarks Topics: Abuse of rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-01-03 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12881039113.html [Article] The Defense of Abuse of Trademark Rights: Internal Disputes within Organizations under the Iemoto System and

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Trademarks Topics: Abuse of rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-08-27 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12865150608.html [Trademark] IP High Court, 2020 (Ne) 10017 <Honda> One of three parties that had long used the “Morihan” indication obtained a

* No abuse of rights. Ultimately, the defendant nonprofit organization’s failure to register the trademark was the reason it lost. As a member of the “Gendai no Riron Editorial Committee,” the plaintiff has published an electronic edition of “Gendai no Riron” since 2014. The defe

日本語版を読む / Japanese version Article information Article type: Case note Category: Trademarks Topics: Similarity of trademarks, Distinctiveness, Confusion, Abuse of rights, Patent corrections First published on this website: October 2, 2026 Case number (as stated in the source): Osaka District Court, Reiwa 6 (Wa) 5007 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-10 [Trademarks] Osaka District Court, Reiwa 6 (Wa) 5007, “Awa koi ichigo” <Presiding Judge Matsukawa> Trademark at issue:

① The Ricoh case and how “compulsory mediation” should operate Although the first-instance judgment also dismissed damages entirely, as long as the implementer actually enjoys the patented invention's benefits, a solution denying an injunction but allowing payment equivalent to a reasonable licence fee (royalty)—following the Supreme Court's 1968 judgment—is desirable from the perspectives of legal consistency and equity.

[Gomisar] (Presiding Judge Takahashi) 1. Around 1992, the defendant began manufacturing and selling commercial food-waste treatment machines under the product name "Gomisar" and obtained trademark registration, but the right expired in 2009. 2. In 1996, the plaintiff entered into a sales agency agreement with the defendant for the defendant's products and sold those products.