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May issue [Legal Affairs] Newsletter Japan Patent Office: Announces guidelines for designated goods and designated services regarding virtual space and non-fungible tokens (NFT) On March 5, 2024, the Japan Patent Office announced guidelines for designated goods and designated services regarding virtual space and non-fungible tokens (NFT). ) guidelines for designated goods and designated services have been published. In recent years, the use of virtual space for business has progressed.
May Issue [General] Newsletter 5th Japan-ASEAN Patent Experts Meeting On March XNUMX, XNUMX, the XNUMXth Japan-ASEAN Patent Expert Meeting will be held by the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the intellectual property offices of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. The ASEAN Patent Experts Meeting was held online. The above meeting will be held in Singapore on September XNUMX, XNUMX.
As of March 6, 3, the Japan Patent Office has added new patent examination cases related to AI-related technologies to the "Patent and Utility Model Examination Handbook." In addition, on the Japan Patent Office website "About explanatory materials for cases related to AI-related technologies," ・Materials explaining 13 newly added cases in slide format ・Full text of all cases related to AI-related technologies
Our office will hold a web intellectual property seminar "Design Practice (2024) Applied Edition: Foreign Design Application" on April 4, 24. If you are interested, please check the details and apply from "Click here for materials/application" at the bottom of the page. *To participate in this seminar, you must register by the day before the seminar (April 3rd).
April Issue [Legal Affairs] Newsletter Relaxation of Procedures for Applying Exception to Loss of Novelty Video released on the Patent Office's YouTube channel In the explanatory video series currently available on the Patent Office's YouTube channel, we have introduced the following in our newsletter: A video regarding the revised law has been released regarding “Procedures for applying exceptions to loss of novelty of designs”
April Issue [General] Newsletter About the patent application non-disclosure system We have introduced the patent application non-disclosure system several times in this newsletter, and it will finally start from May 4st of this year. The Japan Patent Office has already released detailed information, but on February 5 this year, the Japan Patent Office announced the initial examination and advance confirmation system for prohibiting foreign applications.
- 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 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
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
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.