Novelty, Inventive
(Conclusion)
Novelty, Inventive step is NOT found.
Selected invention
The patentability was denied because there was no “significant unique effect”.
(This is an unusual decision in recent years.)
<Writer: Hideki Takaishi (Attorney-at-law licensed in Japan and California)>
https://www.courts.go.jp/ip/eng/assets/ip/eng/chizai_en/chizai_en-pdf-2689.pdf