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Unlike the first-instance judgment, the court found that the appellee had prepared and administered a drug containing components ①, ②, and ③ simultaneously. ⇒ Claim limitations satisfied: the patentee won on reversal. * The closely watched issue of whether separate administration

日本語版 Article information Article type: Reports and activities Category: Patents Topics: Patent eligibility, Examination and appeal practice First published on this site: 2026-10-11 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-11 Trial and Appeal Practitioners Study Group Report 2024 — Theme 4 (Electrical 1) [Eligibility as an invention: human mental activities and artificial arrangements] Whether something “as a whole” constitutes a creation of technical ideas utilizing the laws o

日本語版 Article information Article type: Case note Category: United States Topics: Patent eligibility First published on this site: 2026-10-10 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-10 [United States] CAFC, August 2, 2023 — Realtime Data v. Array Network [Alice, step one] → Not satisfied The claims do not clearly define a particular technology for performing data compression; they merely state results abstractly. [Alice, step two] → Not satisfied The specification does not sho

日本語版 Article information Article type: Case note Category: Patents Topics: Patent eligibility First published on this site: 2026-10-10 Display/classification checked: 2026-10-10 Tokyo High Court, Heisei 15 (Gyo-Ke) No. 166 — …Topical agent for treating atopic dermatitis (Judge Tsukahara) *Falsity of the examples described in the specification was successfully established! → Not an “invention” eligible for a patent. (Excerpt from the judgment, translated) Although the specific

Japanese version: https://www.takaishihideki.com/single-post/linkedin-7513418920406556672-ja Article information Article type: Case note Categories: Patents Issues: Patent eligibility, Enablement Published on website: 2026-10-08 Display and classification checked: 2026-10-08 IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Gyo-Ke) 10014 [Acceleration recovery generator] <Judge Miyasaka> [Claim 1] A motor drives a weight at the end of an arm through: (1) acceleration → (2) high-speed forward rotation