Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Korean litigants keep wrestling over how to put to rest the accounting for past colonial wrongs done to forced laborers. The collateral: intellectual property. As reported last year, the regional Daejeon Court tried to wrest reparations…
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For the third time, we take a look at the relatively new Designs that can be protected (and challenged) in Japan–the Interior Designs. What is a Japanese Interior Design Patent? Can a layout of a room actually be “intellectual property”?…
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Unless a patent was filed in Japan a while ago (before April 1, 2004), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) will be charging more for many of the Japanese patent (including for PCT filings) and trademark fees, effective April 1, 2022….
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We published an article in August 2021 and a followup newsflash in December regarding the Japanese government’s move toward a legal framework for a new secret patent system. The task force considering aspects of economic security for Japan presented their…
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In short order after our update from last week, another update to an intellectual property issue found in our archives has come up. Cloudflare, having complied with Japanese courts before, now is hit with a new accusation of accountability for…
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Late last year, news came out that Nippon Steel, one of Japan’s great steel manufacturers, was suing Toyota and Toyota’s new supplier of non-oriented magnetic steel sheets, Baosteel, for patent infringement. Later, Nippon Steel even set its sights on longstanding…
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Japan Patent Office (JPO) made a joint statement posting their goals to issue office actions in response to Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) requests, making it easier for applicants to plan a…
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We of Keisen Associates hope that 2021, rough though it was, brought good to you and yours. We have sought to be a “fountain of blessings” as far as helps for you to understand and ponder innovation, intellectual property, and…
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* Additional commentary: Taro Yaguchi has written up a blog post highlighting some of the issues that came to light in this case, separately available here. YouTube’s copyright policies are fairly strict on infringers of intellectual property, enabling a reporter…
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December 2021 Newsflash After deliberation in the background, Japan’s government is making more moves to enshrine secrecy measures for some intellectual property filed with the JPO and deemed dangerous from a military or other security perspective. Since the last announcement,…
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