JPO Status Report 2025
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Article type: Reports and activities
Categories: Patents
Topics: Examination and appeal practice, Divisional applications
First published on this website: 2026-10-16
Display and classification checked: 2026-10-17
JPO Status Report 2025
The number of patent applications in Japan is recovering: 306,855 applications.
Appeals against examiners’ decisions of refusal: 20,000.
Requests for invalidation trials doubled to 186 (one person filed more than 50).
Operation of suspension of examination of divisional applications while the parent application is pending in appeal proceedings
Allowing applicants to consider how to handle a divisional application in light of the results of re-examination before appeal or the appeal proceedings for the parent application is expected to help them develop more efficient and effective filing strategies.
• Examination was suspended in 3,553 cases in 2024.
Originally published: 2025-03-26
Original Japanese post: https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12891384718.html
English translations of the Japanese source figures
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