2025 (Ne) 10035 [Vehicle Guidance System] <Honda> (PXZ v. East Nippon Expressway Company Limited)
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First published on this website: 2026-11-01
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Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-12-30 (Japan time). Full English translation.
2025 (Ne) 10035 [Vehicle Guidance System] <Honda>
(PXZ v. East Nippon Expressway Company Limited)
*Non-satisfaction of the claim requirements was found on the same basis as the finding in 2024 (Gyo-Ke) 10086 that the grandparent application failed to meet the divisional-application requirements.
“The ‘entrance/exit for ordinary vehicles’ in constituent requirement 2E does not include an entrance/exit for ordinary vehicles at another interchange adjacent to the toll-road tollgate, service area, or parking area where the vehicle guidance system of Invention 2 at issue is installed.”
⇒ Claim requirements not satisfied.
“Guidance” means objectively directing a vehicle. In the absence of signs or the like, a driver's voluntary U-turn cannot be evaluated as guidance provided by a function of the facility.
⇒ “It does not have guidance means for guiding vehicles from which tolls cannot be collected by ETC onto a ‘route returning once again to a point before said entrance/exit exclusively for ETC vehicles.’”
⇒ Claim requirements not satisfied.
Translator’s notes (editorial)
The source quotation contains an ungrammatical Japanese particle in its exclusion of the adjacent interchange. The exclusion is translated according to the stated meaning, without changing the substantive scope.
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