Honda announced back in July (reported here) how it had seen good results from its AI-supported patent portfolio experiment. Now, it and Japanese robotic process automation (RPA) leader RPA Holdings have announced they are offering a similar program to others….
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March 10, 2020 marked the implementation of revised rules that allow for new Japanese patents in any field to be given extensions in protection, if they are allowed and registered unduly late. New filers may want to keep this change…
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Honda Motor Co., Ltd.’s Bessho Hirokazu (General Manager of Corporate IP Division, IP and Standardization Supervisory Unit) presented plans to perform Honda’s regular analysis of its global patent portfolio by means of Artificial Intelligence (AI), on September 18, 2019. Honda…
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Under the “Act to Revise a part of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (May 30, 2018 Article 33)”, the JPO has greatly simplified the existing procedure to reduce fees, for the purpose of helping small and micro entities. As previously,…
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On January 17, 2019, the Japanese Patent Attorney’s Association held a press conference in which presenter Seiji Matsuda pointed out the impact of the now-effective modified Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement (often called TPP-11) on intellectual property. The major changes…
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Japanese chemical giant Toray announced on December 19, 2018 that it is striking out at two competitors that it claims are violating its extended medical use patent for an anti-itch product, Remitch®. The Japanese business paper Nikkei Shimbun took up…
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* Updated March 10, 2020 to reflect revised rules and practice. A patent’s duration is fairly standard in Japan: 20 years from the filing date. (For a PCT international application that enters the national phase in Japan, that is 20…
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The patent term is 20 years from the filing date. However, an application for patent duration extension is permitted under certain conditions in such cases as medicinal products, if the patent practically could not be used due to a time-consuming…
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