2022 (Ne) 10078 [Display Device Supportable with One Hand] <Kanno>
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Article information
Article type: Case note
Category: Patents
Topics: Inventive step, Design choices
First published on this website: 2026-11-01
Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026
Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-23 (Japan time). Full English translation.
2022 (Ne) 10078 [Display Device Supportable with One Hand] <Kanno>
*Obviousness was found based on a shared technical field.
*The angle is a matter of design choice.
(Excerpt from the court's reasoning)
…The invention in Exhibit Otsu 1′ and the well-known technology both concern the technical field of small foldable electronic devices. Because they share that field, as explained in the original judgment incorporated with modifications …, a person skilled in the art could readily have conceived of adopting the well-known intermediate stopper in the invention in Exhibit Otsu 1′ to obtain the configuration relating to the difference at issue. In doing so, the angle at which the two display panels are fixed is a matter of design choice, and adjusting it to “a predetermined angle within the range of about 150 degrees to about 170 degrees” was also something a person skilled in the art could appropriately do ….
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