Inventive step
(Conclusion)
Inventive step is NOT found.
*Combining a sub-reference solving a problem different from that of the present invention with a main reference is considered to be easy to conceive “by another reason” (by the logic to solve a problem which is different from the problem of the presente invention).
⇒ The inventive step of the numerically limited invention was denied.
<Writer: Hideki Takaishi (Attorney-at-law licensed in Japan and California)>
https://www.ip.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_en/691/002691.pdf