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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,
[Matters held] After the application is published, the applicant for utility model registration gives a warning to a third party by presenting a document describing the content of the invention related to the application for utility model registration, and then makes amendments to the scope of the claims. If the amendment restricts the scope of the claims, and the article worked by a third party falls within the technical scope of the invention both before and after the amendment, the applicant shall