Case No. 2025 (Gyo-ke) 10049
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Published on this website: 2026-09-29
Case No. 2025 (Gyo-ke) 10049
[Passenger conveyor] (Presiding Judge Nakahira)
The plaintiff argued that "the cited invention … has already solved the problem by means for solving the problem that differ from those of the claimed invention."
However, this judgment held that "whether it has already been solved by another, different means of solution is unrelated to the existence of motivation."
(The quotations above are translations.)
⇒ Inventive step denied
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