Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Yo) 30028 — Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Kokubu, Civil Division 29)
(Issued around the same time as Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Yo) 30029 (Nakashima, Civil Division 40).) ⇒ Without deciding whether there was patent infringement, the court, in light of the circumstances, began with “negation of unlawfulness as a lawful act.” It adopted a framework


Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Yo) 30029 — Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Nakashima, Civil Division 40)
★ Application for a provisional injunction based on violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act: a case denying patent infringement by finding that the medical-use invention was not worked under an “exclusively” standard and that, on the patentee’s argument that a certain
[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Notification of false facts]
IP High Court, Case No. 2024 (Ne) 10043 [R badge] (Presiding Judge Masuda) ⇒ Does not constitute notification of false facts.
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"Mark Gonzales / Angel" (Presiding Judge Moritomi) (= First instance: Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 70127, Presiding Judge Shibuya) <Applicable law>
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