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NOTICES

May 16,2022

The JPO announced a “Knowledge Collection of IP Strategy Designers Dispatching Project 2021”, which is a collection of know-how (knowledge) acquired from the project in which Yoshimitsu KUDO (Mr.), a patent attorney, acted as a member of IP strategy designers.

AWARDS

May 10,2022

Takaki NISHIJIMA Awarded Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays

AWARDS

April 14,2022

Kei IIDA Ranked in Asia IP

AWARDS

April 14,2022

Kei IIDA Ranked in Chambers and Partners

NOTICES

April 11,2022

Holiday Notice for April 29 ~May 1 & May 3~May 5

Patent

[Patent★★] A Case in which the Intellectual Property Hight Court ack…

Intellectual Property Hight Court Case No.2021 (Ne) 10029, September

Patent

[Patent★] “Vinylidene chloride system resin wrap film” P…

Tokyo District Court Case No. 2019 (Wa) 31214, November 5, 2020 (Presi

Trademark

【Trademark Act ★】A case in which the Court maintained the Japan Pat…

Intellectual Property High Court Decision of January 25, 2022 (Case No

Design (Links)

＜IP High Court＞ 2007 (Ne) 10032（July 20, 2010）”Container fo…

Similarity of design (Infringement case) (Conclusion) Defendant’s desi

Design (Links)

＜Supreme Court＞ 1970(Gyo-Tsu)45（March 19, 1994） “Flexible a…

Novelty (related to Prior designs) Easiness to create the design (Conc

Design (Links)

＜Supreme Court＞ 1973(Gyo-Tsu)82（February 28, 1975） “CapR…

Novelty (related to Prior designs) (Conclusion) Novelty should NOT be

Design (Links)

＜Supreme Court＞ 1991 (Gyo-tsu) 139 （February 24, 1995）”Embe…

Prior application (Design Act Article 9(1)) (Conclusion) Rejected as P

Design (Links)

＜Osaka District Court＞ 2004 (Wa) 1099（January 17, 2005） “Yu…

Similarity of design (Infringement case) (Conclusion) Defendant’s desi

Design (Links)

＜IP High Court＞ 2005 (Gyo-ke) 10134（September 15, 2005） “Po…

Novelty (related to Prior designs) (Conclusion) Novelty should NOT be

Design (Links)

＜IP High Court＞ 2005 (Ne) 10079（ October 31, 2005） “Carabin…

Similarity of “article (goods)” (Infringement case) (Conclusion) Defen

April 6,2022

Kei IIDA, attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article “Study on Calculation of Damages under IP High Court Grand Panel Decisions on Beauty Instrument Case and Viscous Compositions containing Carbon Dioxide Case and Patent Act Amendment 2019”, which was published in the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW and POLICY JOURNAL Vol. 60.

March 20,2022

Masakazu KOBAYASHI(Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, authored “Case of Direct Infringement by Defendant who Performs Only a Part of Process Invention – “Method for Installing Handrails” Case – ” which was published in “Intellectual Property Management” .

February 25,2022

Kunimitsu KOMATSU authored “Case in which Inventive Step and Support Requirement of the Same Invention Including a Numerical Limitation Were Evaluated in Different Court Decisions, Respectively,” which was published in Monthly Journal “A.I.P.P.I.”

January 21,2022

Separate Points of Contention —The Encyclopedia of Patent Judgments (Third Edition)

January 5,2022

Shoichi SATAKE (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, co-authored the book entitled Anti-Doping Procedures and Rules which was published by SHOJIHOMU.

September 17,2021

Hidekazu NISHIMURA authored articles regarding clear indication of working conditions and continuous contracts which were published in the Freelance Handbook.

July 1,2021

A series of articles entitled “Outline of the Laws and Procedures in Japan to Protect Intellectual Property Rights” was prepared by Nakamura & Partners.

March 9,2021

Hidekazu NISHIMURA (Mr.), attorney at law, authored an article regarding leakage of personal information which was published in Practical Solutions to the 2020 Revision of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information.

September 29,2020

Mr. Hideki TAKAISHI and Mr. Tsubasa YAMAMOTO, attorneys-at-law, published an article in Patent on copyright law interpretation .

August 28,2020

Reiko TONOMURA (Ms.), attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article regarding a legislative bill of the Plant Variety Protection and Seed Act.

February 1,2022

Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, will give a lecture titled as “Intellectual Property” at Customs Training Institute.

January 6,2022

Yoshimitsu KUDO (Mr.), patent attorney, will be on stage at a panel session of Society for management of intellectual properties (Smips).

December 28,2021

Kei IIDA, Hironobu HATTORI, and Kunimitsu KOMATSU gave a lecture titled “Various Issues of Agricultural and Fishery Intellectual Properties in the Food Sector: Innovation”

December 28,2021

Kei IIDA, Reiko TONOMURA, and Takashi ISHIDO gave a lecture titled “Various Issues of Agricultural and Fishery Intellectual Properties in the Food Sector: Brand Management”

June 21,2021

Hideki TAKAISHI (Mr.), attorney at law & patent attorney, gave a lecture titled as “Gathering Documents by Sasho (Inspection) introduced in 2020”.

May 12,2021

Kunimitsu KOMATSU gave a lecture at AIPPI Japan 198^th Case Study Workshop

December 3,2020

Yuriko KUDO (Ms.), patent attorney, reported on research results regarding the Japanese Design Act at the 18th Annual Research Presentation Meeting of the Intellectual Property Association of Japan held on November 28 and 29, 2020.

October 7,2020

Hironobu HATTORI (Mr.), patent attorney, and Akira Watanabe (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, made a presentation at 5th International Online Conference “Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” held in Moscow, Russia from October 1 to 2, 2020, through the internet.

August 26,2020

Hideki TAKAISHI (Mr.), attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture titled as “Points of Intellectual Property Management” at Monthly Seminars Osaka of LES Japan.　

March 6,2020

Tsubasa YAMAMOTO (Mr.), attorney at law, is giving a lecture titled “IP Strategy for Startups” at the Accelerator program held by Tokyo Metropolis.

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