The Japan Patent Office (JPO), considered one of the top five patent offices in the world, published its revised Mission, Vision, and Values statement on June 15, 2021. The English version shared on the JPO website is as follows: ＜Mission＞…
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Following the May 13 passage of revisions for the Patent Act, May 25, 2021, a bill for smoothing out copyright issues for digital distributions passed the Upper House (House of Councillors) unanimously. The Copyright Act is being updated to: 1)…
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Old shopping checkouts are vanishing in UNIQLO, which is famous in Japan and now outside of it for its casual apparel retailing. In recent years it gained attention for its automated checkout scanning systems, where the customer can place the…
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Clarivate, global IP analyst, sets out annually to find the world’s largest innovation engines. This year, it issued its tenth Top 100 Global Innovators” awards. This year, The USA was represented by 41, but East Asia combined rivaled its numbers….
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The Japan Patent Office published its annual Status Report in March. (You can see our review of previous reports for 2017, 2018, and 2020.) Here are a few of the things we noted. Patent Prosecution in Japan -Steady decline in…
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A pilot program for the Patent Prosecution Highway between Morocco and Japan goes into effect today, April 1, 2021. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reported on March 25, 2021 that the Moroccan Office of Industrial and…
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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan reported on March 2 that the Cabinet of Prime Minister Suga had approved various proposals to amend intellectual property laws in Japan. The main aims of the revisions would be to…
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Japanese sometimes see China and Korea as the great infringers of intellectual property, but the Japan Patent Office sees the buying and selling of counterfeit and other infringing items in Japan as a problem that cannot be ignored. Fearing increases…
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Further provisions to Japan’s revised Copyright Act went into effect January 1, 2021, tightening restrictions on the users of copyright-infringing materials online. In addition to modifications to procedures for registering and examining copyrighted materials, the noteworthy revision is making it…
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As countries struggle over intellectual property in this world rocked by novel coronavirus COVID-19, Intellectual property institutions need to forge ahead. The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has been conducting committee meetings aiming to improve its intellectual property environment, and issued…
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