2022 (Gyo-Ke) 10016 [Pressure-Sensitive Transfer Adhesive Tape] <Kanno>
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Article information
Article type: Case note
Category: Patents
Topics: Clarity
First published on this website: 2026-11-01
Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026
Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-12-04 (Japan time). Full English translation.
2022 (Gyo-Ke) 10016 [Pressure-Sensitive Transfer Adhesive Tape] <Kanno>
“Configured to be capable of causing paper tearing”
⇒ Clarity: satisfied (Almost tautological!?)
“Understood as configured ‘to be capable of causing paper tearing’…. Even if … the occurrence rate and conditions … are not specified …, third parties are not exposed to unforeseen loss….”
(Excerpt from the court's reasoning)
…Taking the specification and drawings together, “paper tearing” in Invention 1 can be understood as the phenomenon in which, when the adhesive layer of an adhesive product is peeled off, the surface layer of paper adheres to the adhesive and the paper ruptures in its thickness direction. The defining limitation “configured to be capable of causing paper tearing” in Invention 1 can be understood as referring, among “pressure-sensitive transfer adhesive tapes” satisfying the other elements, to those configured “to be capable of causing paper tearing”…. Thus, even if …the occurrence rate or conditions are not specified, the claims are not so unclear as to expose third parties to unforeseen loss. …There is no need to add an interpretive condition that the paper tears “in a state visible to an ordinary user.”
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