Tokyo District Court, 2019 (Wa) 24736 [… Air-Conditioned Clothing] <Kokubu>
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Article type: Case note
Category: Patents
Topics: Inventive step
First published on this website: 2026-11-01
Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026
Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-10-12 (Japan time). Full English translation.
Tokyo District Court, 2019 (Wa) 24736 [… Air-Conditioned Clothing] <Kokubu>
A person skilled in the art encountering the publicly worked invention would recognize the problem of “tying a pair of adjustment cords to the desired length.”
⇒ The adjustment method is well known in the clothing field.
⇒ The fact that air-conditioned clothing itself is an innovative technology does not support inventive step.
⇒ Inventive step: not satisfied
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