 | Review of the Exception to Loss of Novelty Regulations
Exception to Loss of Novelty of Invention regulations are provided in Article 30 of Japanese Patent Law. Provided that certain conditions are met, an exception is made and the invention treated as if it novelty has not been lost, despite having been made public prior to filing. Existing regulations...
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 | Japanese Industrial Design Registration Fees Lowered
Industrial Design Registration Fees (11th to 20th years) to be Paid to the JPO will be Cut in Half
There currently is a high emphasis on long life designs. In light of this, the last two stages of maintenance fee payment will be combined to become the 11th to 20th years, and the annuities of JPY...
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 | Establishment and Publication of Revisions to the Japanese Patent Act (Part 2)
-Implementation of Quicker Dispute Resolution-
This time we are continuing our discussion regarding the revisions to the Japanese Patent Act. The law will be implemented in April, 2012. The goal of this legal revision is quicker and more precise dispute resolution and improvement of user...
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 | Reduction in Japan Patent Office Examination Fees Starting August 1, 2011
The fee regulations that determine substantive examination charges for patent applications were revised, and will be implemented starting August 1, 2011. These changes will lower the substantive examination fees of the Japan Patent Office from about JPY 200,000 to JPY 150,000 (an approximately 25%...
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 | URGENT Mail Server Error
Dear Clients,
The Asia Patent Alliance email server was down from September 2, 2011 until September 5, 2011. For this reason, any emails sent during this time may not have been received.
Please resend any correspondence from the past few days if you have not received a confirmation from us.
Thank...
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 | Passage and Publications of Japanese Patent Law Revisions
-Strengthening Protection of License Contracts, Protection of the Real Inventor, Improving Fairness of Dispute Resolution-In this issue we will explain the Japanese patent regulation reforms, which were passed on May 31, 2011 and published on June 7, 2011. The regulations will be enforced one year...
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 | New One Point Lesson on Japanese Pharmaceutical Patent Term Extension
Approval of Patent Term Extension, even when the Same Active Ingredient of the Drug was Previously Accepted (Japanese Supreme Court Decision of April 2011)In our previous issue, we introduced provisions for patent term extension. Extension can be used for recovery when the granted patent of a...
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 | Japanese Patent Law Revisions Announced
Japanese Patent Law Revisions have been AnnouncedThe JPO made an announcement regarding changes to Japanese Patent Law on March 11, 2011.There are 4 themes for the new revisions: 1. Strengthening Protection of License Contracts License registration, which was difficult to practice, is no longer...
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 | JPO Examination Fee Deferral System Extended
In April, 2009, the JPO introduced a new initiative as an emergency measure towards the economic depression, The deadline to remit fees for requesting substantive examination, which previously was required at the time examination was requested, can now be deferred up to one year after the...
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 | How do you solve a problem with scallop shell disposal?
According to the Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, 3.13 million tons of fishery products, including innards and shells, were disposed of in fiscal 2008. Of this, about 190,000 tons of scallop shells were thrown away in Hokkaido alone – thus making the shells an abundant...
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 | JPO Introduces New Initiative for Deferral of Examination Fee Payments
On 4th April 2009, the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) introduced a new initiative permitting the deferral of examination fee payments for the examination request procedure. As of June, 2010, 15,716 applications have used this new system (see here for full article). All clients wishing to obtain a...
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 | Trademarks of Place and Company Names Filed by Third Parties in China and Taiwan
In June 2010, the International Affairs Division of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) released results of an investigation into trademark applications for Japanese place names filed by third parties having no relation to such places in China and Taiwan.
The registering of Japanese place names as...
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 | Implementation of permanent Japan – UK PPH.
The Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) agreed to make permanent their Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) scheme from 10th March 2010. This scheme, which had been piloted since 2007, allows businesses to benefit from faster patenting in the UK and Japan as the...
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