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Introduction to design decisions: “Studded bag case” ~Design ruling regarding application of exception to loss of novelty~

- Reiwa 5 (Gyoke) No. 10071 Request for rescission of trial decision (December 2023, 12) - (Plaintiff) Rainbow Shake Co., Ltd. / (Defendant) Summary of Judgment from the Japan Patent Office Regarding designs cited, Article 25 of the Design Act A case in which it was disputed whether the exception to lack of novelty in paragraph XNUMX should be applied. The plaintiff claims that the cited design does not meet the ``exception rule for loss of novelty of a design.''

Comparison of variety protection systems and key points for foreign applications: Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States

Comparison of variety protection systems and points for foreign applications Japan, China, South Korea, United States Number of annual applications in Japan (2021) Approximately 776 Jurisdictional organization Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Protection period 25 years after registration (30 years for trees, etc.) Application language Japanese Required application documents such as variety registration application, manual, photo, etc. *Required document characteristics table if applicable

February 2024 [General] Newsletter

March Issue [General] Newsletter 3 US Patent Acquisition Ranking by Company The US Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) has announced the 2023 patent acquisition ranking by company. According to IPO, 2023 patents were issued in 2023 (down 312,486% from the previous year). In the ranking, Samsung Electron

January 2024 [Legal Affairs] Newsletter

March issue [Legal Affairs] Newsletter Trends in design registration applications for new objects of protection Filed on the Japan Patent Office website on February 3th for new objects of protection based on the revised Design Act (enforced on April 2, 8) Since the trends have been made public, we will be posting them in this newsletter for the first time in a while. According to this, "images", "buildings", and "interior interiors" are now subject to new protection.

Introduction of judgment/Domestic design: "Chura tile case" - Judgment regarding recognition of consumer and application of exception to loss of novelty -

- Reiwa 5 (Gyoke) No. 10008 Request for rescission of trial decision (June 2023, 6) - [Plaintiff] Taisei Corporation, Kengo Kuma Architects and Urban Design Office [Defendant: Owner of the design in question] Kobayashi Kawara Kogyo Co., Ltd., Hekinan Ceramics Co., Ltd., Shinnaka Judgment Summary Summary of the Judgment The design in question was maintained in the invalidation trial (invalidation 12-2021) (Design Registration No. 880006)

About the standard character system

The standard character system is a system in which, among trademarks consisting only of characters, those in a character typeface (standard characters) predetermined by the Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office are announced and registered as the display mode of the trademark. If the following requirements are not met, an application can be filed by simply stating in the application the trademark for which the applicant wishes to register, based on the applicant's declaration of intention (Article 5 of the Trademark Law).

January 2024 [Legal Affairs] Newsletter

February issue [Legal Affairs] Newsletter Chinese Designs: Amendments to the Patent Law Implementation Regulations and Examination Guidelines will take effect on January 2024, 1 After the 20th revision of the Patent Law went into effect in China on June 2021, 6. Although it took a long time to revise the Patent Law Implementation Regulations and Patent Examination Guidelines, the revised law will finally come into effect on January 1, 4.

February 2024 [General] Newsletter

February Issue [General] Newsletter Extension of the Japan-Thailand and Japan-Indonesia Patent Prosecution Highway Trial Programs The Japan-Thailand Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) was scheduled to end on December 2, 2023. The implementation period of both the pilot program and the Japan-Indonesia PPH pilot program has been extended. concrete

About common naming

Introduction Common naming of goods and services refers to a name that was originally named as a name for goods or services, but as a result of being widely used, it is no longer recognized as an identification mark for one's own or other goods, and is now used as a general name. It means that it has become. If this common name change occurs before the decision is made, the trademark cannot be registered (Article 3, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the Trademark Law);

List of newsletters distributed in the past

If you would like to receive the newsletter, please contact us by email and include the email address of your desired recipient. It will be distributed from the next month's issue. 2024 JANUARY 2024 <[General] Newsletter> 1. Global Intellectual Property Strategy Forum held

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