Our Articles on IP Matters are Provided here.

update: 2 29, 2008

• Functional RNA [drafted 2.29.2008]
• Patent Troll and View of Exercise of Software Patent [drafted 2.26.2008]
• Access and Benefit Sharing Related to Genetic Resources [drafted 1.30.2008]
• Patent Depository System [drafted 1.16.2008]
• Common Intellectual Property Law in South America [drafted 7.23.2007]
• Patent Prosecution Highway [drafted 6.13.2007]
• Revision of Divisional Application System and Amendment System [drafted 4.5.2006]
• International Jurisdiction [drafted 3.28.2006]
• Brief Summary of Collective Trademark [drafted 3.23.2006]
• Patent Law and Lex Causae ~explained with a precedent~ [drafted 12.28.2004]
• Doctrine of Exhaustion as Applied to Patent Rights [drafted 8.8.2005]

• Patent Depository System [drafted 1.16.2008]
• Common Intellectual Property Law in South America [drafted 7.13.2007]
• Patent Prosecution Highway [drafted 6.13.2007]
• Revision of Divisional Application System and Amendment System [drafted 4.5.2006]
• International Jurisdiction [drafted 3.28.2006]
• Patent Law and Lex Causae ~explained with a precedent~ [drafted 12.28.2004]
• Doctrine of Exhaustion as Applied to Patent Rights [drafted 8.8.2005]
• System for PCT Application-Supplementation [drafted 4.27.2004]
• Revision of Utility Model System [drafted 3.4.2004]
• New System for PCT Application [drafted 11.06.2003]
• A REVISION FOR THE JAPANESE PATENT EXAMINATION GUIDELINES OF "METHODS OF SURGERY,THERAPY OR DIAGNOSTIC OF HUMANS." [drafted 12.05.2003]
• An Overview of Revisions in Japanese Patent Law (2002 - 2004) [drafted 12.5.2003]
• PCT Applications: Entering Into National Phase in Japan [drafted 10.30.2003]
• Employees' Inventions: the Moves for Amendment of the Patent Law [drafted 07.01.2003]
• On Exceptions to Lack of Novelty [drafted 02.21.2003]
• Unity of Invention in Selected Countries [drafted 02.13.2003]
• System for Disclosure of Information on Prior Art Documents [drafted 02.06.2003]
• Prospect Future of the Pro-Patent Society [drafted 06.24.2002]
• Bill for Revision of a Part of the Patent Law and Other Related Laws [drafted 05.10.2002]
• PCT application regionally designating EP [drafted 03.28.2002]
• New matter problems under JP laws [drafted 03.01.2002]
• RCE and CPA [drafted 12.12.2001]
• Contents and Reasons of Revision of the Time Limit for Submitting a Request for Examination [drafted 10.03.2001]
• Rivisions of Japanese Patent and Trademark Law [drafted 12.01.1999]

• Judgments in Trial Decision Annulment Litigations Rendered in June 2003 [drafted 09.08.2003]
• Suit Against an Appeal/Trial Decision - The court decisions - [drafted 06.12.2003]
• The Realities of Judgements on Infringement of Patent and Notable Judgements [drafted 01.26.2001]

• Review on the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China [drafted 7.22.2005]
• TRADEMARKS IN CHINA [drafted 7.14.2005]
• On Chinese Patent [drafted 7.13.2005]
• Advancement of Examination-United States Patent Rules [drafted 12.14.2004]
• Chinese Business Method Patent "Electronic Monetary System" (CN 1096644C) [drafted 07.08.2003]
• Chinese Business Method Patent "Computer System for Data Management and Method for Operating Same" (CN 1097799C) [drafted 06.23.2003]
• Chinese intellectual property circumstances (Part 1) [drafted 05.23.2003]
• U.S. PATENT LAW AMENDMENTS [drafted 12.08.2000]
• U.S. Means-Plus-Function Claims [drafted 03.07.2000]

• Functional RNA [drafted 2.29.2008]
• Access and Benefit Sharing Related to Genetic Resources [drafted 1.30.2008]
• Protection of Information in Three-Dimensional Protein Structures [drafted 1.20.2004]
• Method for carrying out operation, medical treatment or diagnosis with respect to human [drafted 12.05.2003]
• Application of Inventions related to Medical Activity to the Patent Law [drafted 06.24.2003]
• Reflections on Microorganism Patents [drafted 05.1.2003]
• On Human Cloning [drafted 02.21.2003]
• PATENT APPLICATION REGARDING BUSINESS-RELATED INVENTION [drafted 03.26.2002]
• How to Write Explanatory Documents on Computer Software-Related Invention (Including Business-Related Invention) For Inventors [drafted 03.26.2002]
• Post-genome research and patent system for such research
• CURRENT SITUATION OF BUSINESS MODEL PATENT [drafted 07.15.2000]
• Business Model Patent [drafted 03.10.2000]

• Prospect Future of the Pro-Patent Society [drafted 4.26.2006]
• Brief Summary of Collective Trademark [drafted 3.23.2006]
• Items to Be Studied Regarding Trademark System in Japan From the perspective of Article 4(1)(xi) [drafted 4.26.2004]
• TRADEMARK STREET-Indication of Trademark Registration (1) [drafted 06.7.2003]

• Intellectual Property as the Major Power and Universities [drafted 1.14.2004]
• The Movement for Common Patent through the World [drafted 1.09.2004]
• The Pro-patent Policy and a Scheme for the Northeast Asian Economic Community [drafted 02.14.2003]

Please acknowledge that the purpose of our column is to provide general information on the field of intellectual property, and that the description here does not represent our legal opinion on a specific theme.

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