Tokyo District Court, 2021 (Wa) 26762 <Kokubu> — “Usurped application” denied

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Tokyo District Court, 2021 (Wa) 26762 <Kokubu>

⇒ “Usurped application” denied

The person was the head of research, and the monthly reports bore the plaintiff's seal.

⇒ Although in a position to learn the reports' contents concerning the invention, because the invention involved mixing multiple constituents in different proportions, it would not have been easy to remember it completely after merely glancing at a monthly report.

https://www.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_jp/102/092102_hanrei.pdf

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