Japanese is notoriously difficult to learn, and translation can be challenging. Machine translations understandably end up pretty bad sometimes. Did you know that the Japan Patent Office (JPO) tries to answer this challenge by selecting intellectual property-related court decisions that…
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The Japan Patent Office (JPO) reopened its doors to the public with limitations and precautions on June 1, 2020. It further announced on its website (update June 10) that it is allowing oral examination proceedings, with a long list of…
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Dr. Honjo Tasuku, a winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for his research on cancer-fighting technologies, is making good on his threats to fight Ono Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the treatment drug Opdivo, which signed a contract to use his…
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How will a Japanese patent infringement pay off in damages if the infringement is recognized by the courts? A new decision by the Intellectual Property (IP) High Court of Japan on February 28, 2020 gives some idea of the formula…
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Kyocera Corporation (Kyoto) reported that its patent infringement case filed in 2018 against German automotive supplier Preh GmbH reached settlement in Germany. The resolution leads to an amicable licensing agreement over the haptic feedback technology for touchscreens. Kyocera developed the…
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Earlier this year Professor Tasuku Honjo, Nobel Laureate, publicly criticized his development partner Ono Pharmaceuticals, claiming their renumeration (2.6 billion yen, about US$24 million) was far below what he and other researchers should receive, considering the value of the programmed…
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Following reports of a considered revision to the Japanese Patent Act to enable “discovery” of data on patent infringement earlier this year, the proposal has been officially made. A patent attorney’s informational meeting on July 23, 2019, gave explanation. The…
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The Japanese government’s Subcommittee on the Patent Act System has been working on revisions to the patent litigation system in Japan since October last year. The Japanese patent system does not have a requirement like the United States power of…
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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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Amid all the intrigue about the trade war between China (PRC) and the United States, this time not Huawei in the West but Apple in China has been dealt a blow. However the setback (if it proves to be that)…
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