IP High Court, Case No. 2025 (Gyo-ke) 10049
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Article type: Case note
Display and classification checked: 2026-09-30
Categories: Patents
Topics: Inventive step / Motivation and teaching away
Published on this website: 2026-09-29
IP High Court, Case No. 2025 (Gyo-ke) 10049
[Passenger conveyor] (Presiding Judge Nakadaira)
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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