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PUBLICATIONS

February 18,2019

“Q&A Trademark Legal Consultation Basics – From Trademark Examination to Promotion”, written by Nakamura & Partners and published by DAI-ICHI HOKI CO., LTD., (Tokyo Lawyers Cooperative) has been released.

LECTURES

February 6,2019

Okumura, Naoki (Mr.), an attorney at law and patent attorney, gave a lecture on “Blockchain Technologies: Issues in Patent Law” on January 29, 2019, at The Intellectual Property Lawyers Network Japan 34th IP Seminar.

NOTICES

February 1,2019

Holiday Notice for February 11, 2019

AWARDS

January 22,2019

Ranked Tier 1 in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2019

PUBLICATIONS

January 22,2019

Kunimitsu Komatsu authored the article regarding protection of brand-name drugs, which was published in the Asia IP.

Patent

Recent Trends in Japan relating to SEPs

Since last year the commissioner Ms. Naoko Munakata of the Japan Paten

Trademark

Fast-track examination

Japan Patent Office (JPO) announced that they will introduce a “

Trademark

Amendment of practice about a preliminary notice of rejection based o…

Amendment of practice about a preliminary notice of rejection based on

Patent

“Steel Pole” Case (Patent)

“Steel Pole” Case Case No. Heisei 29 (gyo-ke) 10001 Decis

Patent

Recent Developments on Software-related Patents in Japan

1. Outline The Ministry of International and Economics and the JPO (Ja

Design

Case of “Frozen Dessert with Container” (Design Right)

Case of “Frozen Dessert with Container” Case No. Heisei 28

Patent

The Supreme Court decision on interpretation of Product-by-process cl…

1. In Japan, a product invention can be identified in a claim by its p

Design

Case of “Packaging Box” (Design right)

Case of “Packaging Box” (Design right) Case No. Heisei 27

New Legislation for the Unfair Competition Prevention Act

I. Background of the legislation Many incidents have recently been rep

Copyrightability of Applied Arts in TRIPP TRAPP Appeal Case

On April 14, 2015, the 2nd Division of the IP High Court rendered a de

February 18,2019

January 22,2019

Kunimitsu Komatsu authored the article regarding protection of brand-name drugs, which was published in the Asia IP.

January 8,2019

Hideki TAKAISHI, attorney at law & patent attorney, authored the article “Encyclopedia of Respective Patent Court Cases at Issue – Second Edition” which was published by the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.

November 12,2018

Kunimitsu Komatsu authored the article regarding patent examination pendency, which was published in the Asia IP.

September 28,2018

Masashi SHIMURA coauthored the article “Patent Linkage Practice in Japan” which was published in Patent, the Journal of the JPAA.

September 19,2018

The article “Standardization and IP strategy” written by Kei IIDA, attorney at law and patent attorney, has been published in the “Patent” by JPAA.

September 19,2018

The book “Points of Intellectual Property Management” written by Kei IIDA, attorney at law and patent attorney, has been published.

April 6,2018

Outline of the Laws and Procedures in Japan to Protect Intellectual Property Rights

February 27,2018

Kunimitsu Komatsu authored notes for scope of granted patents for use invention of foods, which was published in the Asia IP.

February 6,2019

January 15,2019

Kei IIDA, attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture titled as “Points of Intellectual Property Management” at Monthly Seminars Osaka of LES Japan.

January 9,2019

Kei IIDA, attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture titled as “Points of Intellectual Property Management” at Monthly Seminars Osaka of LES Japan.

January 7,2019

Kei IIDA, attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture on trade secret strategy for business at Global IP Strategy Forum 2019.

December 18,2018

Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Intellectual property (Lecturer: Reiko TONOMURA, attorney at law and patent attorney)

September 5,2018

Hideki Takaishi, attorney at law & patent attorney, will take the platform as a panelist for ” A means to an end – the doctrine of equivalents ” at AIPPI 2018 in Cancun (held by AIPPI)

June 1,2018

Kei IIDA, attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture on the doctrine of equivalents at the Hokkaido University School of Law.

June 1,2018

Kei IIDA, attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture on damages for patent infringement at the Hokkaido University School of Law.

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