IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10032 [Mobile information communication device] <Presiding Judge Shimizu>
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Article type: Case note
Category: Patents
Issues: Inventive step
First published on this website: 2026-10-03
Court: Intellectual Property High Court
Case number: Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10032
Display and classification checked: 2026-10-03
IP High Court, Reiwa 6 (Ne) 10032 [Mobile information communication device] <Presiding Judge Shimizu>
Lacks inventive step.
⇒ First-instance dismissal upheld.
At filing, it was common general technical knowledge that a mobile phone receives a wireless signal, demodulates it into a digital signal, and uses a CPU to process it and display an image.
⇒ A skilled person would naturally understand this even without an express description in the prior-art document.
In Hei B9, too, displaying on an external monitor data that cannot be fully viewed on the mobile screen entails a difference in resolution.
Use of VRAM (image memory) and bitmap data (dot data) for handling images was common general knowledge.
Techniques for cropping, reducing, or scrolling a large image to view it on a small screen were also well known at filing.
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