Autumn 2003, Vol 10, Issue 3

Featured Article:

• Japan Making Strategic Program for the Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Intellectual Property: Review of the Japanese Patent System

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Festo Being Remanded to the District Court: No End in Sight for the Battle over the Scope of Surrender.
  • Presumed willful: Can the court make a defendant choose between waiving privilege and a presumption of willful infringement?
  • Chapter II Demand No Longer Required With PCT Applications
  • USPTO Examination Changes

• Japan
  • New Japanese Rules regarding Parallel Import of Trademarked Goods
  • US Doctrine of Equivalents in Japanese Courts: Tokyo District Court Applied the Festo Presumption and Found No Infringement

Spring-Summer 2003, Vol 10, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• The Harmonization of Moral Rights: A Comparative study of Moral Rights Protection in the United States and Japan

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  •  No Immunity for General Experimentations and Research Under §271(e) (1) Exemption or Common Law Experimental Use Exception
  • Too Easy to Infer the “Intent-To-Deceive” for Inequitable Conduct?
  • Claiming biological methods
  • Pioneer Patents are Not Entitled to a Lower Enablement Standard
  • The Federal Circuit Reaffirmed that the Copyright Act did not Preempt or Narrow the Scope of Shrink-wrap License that Prohibited Reverse Engineering

Winter 2003, Vol 10, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• Comparative Study on Prosecution History Estoppel in the U.S. and Japan: What can Japan learn from the chaos in Warner-Jenkinson and Festo? Part 2 of 2 (Table 1)

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Experimental Use Exception Does Not Exempt University From Patent Infringement
  • The 2002 Amendment of Reexamination Proceeding: A Step Towards Post-Grant Opposition?
  • President Bush Signs Madrid Legislation
  • Overview of the Federal Circuit – after serving internship at the court
• Japan
  • Japan Making the First Step Toward “A Nation Built on Intellectual Property”
  • Is Legal Protection of Trade Secrets in Japan Enough?
  • Japanese Case on the Infringement of Musical Arrangement right