PATENTS
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December Issue [Legal] NewsletterNew legal issues surrounding content on the metaverseOver the past two months, our newsletter has provided detailed information on the "Relaxation of procedures for application of exceptions to loss of novelty" being considered by the Design Examination Standards Working Group.
POINT Infringement of patent rights is unique in that it is easy to infringe, difficult to prove, and even more difficult to deter. Therefore, it is necessary to take appropriate measures to ensure that the infringers do not win. In view of the above, the recent amendments to the Patent Law are aimed at improving the patent litigation system.
IntroductionIn the field of intellectual property law, there is a law called the Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Layout Act (official name: Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Layout Act), which is not well known. This law was enacted on May 31, 1985, and came into effect on January 1, 1986, the following year. Therefore, it is surprising that the law
In early June, the EPO and SIPO announced the launch of a service called “Global Dossier” available via the European Patent Register website. If the Family Patent of the application is filed with EPO or SIPO, the Fa
What is intellectual property rights? Intellectual property rights, as shown in the diagram below, is a general term for rights that include industrial property rights, which consist of patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, and trademark rights, as well as copyrights, etc. Furthermore, unlike land, buildings, jewelry, etc., intellectual property is intangible. For this reason, intellectual property rights are also called "intangible property rights." Such intellectual property rights
INSITUFORM TECHNOLOGIES, INC., v. CAT CONTRACTING, INC. (CAFC No. 04-1267 Patent Attorney Corporation HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK February XNUMX, XNUMX (Written by Arai)
October 2003, 10 HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK TsujiInternational applications based on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (referred to as PCT applications) that include Japan as a designated country must be filed in Japan under the specified conditions. Being considered as a patent application or utility model registration application
May 2003, 5 Patent Attorney Corporation HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK (Written by: Kiyooka) Deposit of microorganisms Among inventions related to biotechnology, inventions related to microorganisms cannot be easily obtained by a person skilled in the art. , the relevant microorganism before application
On December 27, 2002, a religious group in the United States officially announced the birth of the first human clone, a girl. Although it has not been scientifically verified whether this cloned baby is actually a cloned human, judging from the life technology that has been accumulated over half a century, there is a possibility that the appearance of cloned humans is a fact. That means it's expensive. This group
United States According to the United States examination standards, (a) independent (not related to each other), and (b) distinct (relationships that can be patented independently, such as manufacturing process and product, method and device, etc.) ), it is not possible to obtain rights for multiple inventions in one application (MPEP 802). However,