IP High Court, Reiwa 3 (Gyo-Ke) No. 10116 — Game program (Judge Honda)
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First published on this site: 2026-10-10
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IP High Court, Reiwa 3 (Gyo-Ke) No. 10116 — Game program (Judge Honda)
*The court recognized identity of technical fields at a broader conceptual level.
(Excerpt from the judgment, translated)
The plaintiff argues that a person skilled in the gaming field would not apply the matters described in Ko 2 and Otsu 3 and 4, whose technical fields are unrelated, to the cited invention. However, [...] the well-known matters and commercial practices are widely recognized in the product-sales industry (Ko 2) and the marketing industry (Otsu 3 and 4). They do not concern particular technical features or similar matters that should be applied only within a specific technical field, such as gaming, narrower than those industries, as the plaintiff argues.
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