IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Gyo-Ke) 10024 [X-ray inspection apparatus] <Presiding Judge Nakahira>
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Article type: Case note
Categories: Patents
Issues: Inventive step
First published on this website: October 5, 2026
Case information: Reiwa 6 (Gyo-Ke) 10024 [X-ray inspection apparatus] <Presiding Judge Nakahira>
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IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Gyo-Ke) 10024 [X-ray inspection apparatus] <Presiding Judge Nakahira>
Cited Document 2 describes a “cold-air circulation system” for the sensor section and a “liquid refrigerant circulation system” for the signal-processing circuit section, but these can be understood as separate technical ideas as cooling configurations.
⇒ Accordingly, there was no error in the JPO decision's extracting and identifying only the “cold-air circulation system” related to cooling the sensor section.
(Excerpt from the judgment, translated)
The JPO decision's identification of the technical matters described in Cited Document 2 can be found to have objectively and specifically identified, as a cooling configuration and on the basis of the above description in Cited Document 2, the cold-air circulation system that removes heat from the sensor section, which is one of the two circulation systems that can be understood as different technical ideas. In view of the foregoing, no error can be found in the JPO decision's identification of the technical matters described in Cited Document 2.
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