Newsletter Articles: Japan

System Overview

• A Comparative Study of Technology Transfer by Universities in the U.S.A., China and Japan (Autumn 2000)
• University Technology Transfer in Japan (Winter 1998)

Legislative Developments

• Revised Japanese Patent Attorney Law Will Expand the Scope of Practice for Japanese Patent Attorneys (Spring 2000)
• Recent Legislative Updates in Japan (Summer 1999)

Patent Eligible Subject Matter

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• Problems Regarding the Patentability of Genomics and Scope of Protection of ESTs in Japan (Winter 2000)

Utility

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• Problems Regarding the Patentability of Genomics and Scope of Protection of ESTs in Japan (Winter 2000)

Novelty

Inventive Step

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• Problems Regarding the Patentability of Genomics and Scope of Protection of ESTs in Japan (Winter 2000)

Disclosure Requirements

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• Problems Regarding the Patentability of Genomics and Scope of Protection of ESTs in Japan (Winter 2000)

Claim Interpretation

• Infringement of Functional Claims under Japanese Patent Law (Winter-Spring 1999)
• TI’s Kilby Patent was Found to be Invalid and thus Unenforceable (Autumn 1997)

Doctrine of Equivalents

• File Wrapper Estoppel and the Doctrine of Equivalents in Japanese Courts (Spring 2000)
• The Essential Element Test Provides A Big Hurdle to Japanese Doctrine of Equivalents (Spring 2000)
• Osaka District Court Found Infringement under the Doctrine of Equivalents (Summer 1999)
• The Doctrine of Equivalents after the Supreme Court "Ball Spline" Decision (Winter-Spring 1999)
• The Supreme Court Affirmed the Presence of the Doctrine of Equivalents under Japanese Patent System (Winter 1998)
• New Policy in Interpreting Japanese Patents: Osaka High Court Affirms Infringement of Genentech’s t-PA Patents under the Doctrine of Equivalents (Summer 1996)
• Patent Law Revision (1995 Winter)
• The Proposal for Patent Law Revision (Autumn 1994

Direct and Indirect Infringement

• Reconditioning a disposable camera is infringement (Autumn 2000)
• The Supreme Court of Japan Rules on the Experimental Use Exception to the Use of Patented Drugs for Clinical Testing by Generic Makers Seeking Government Approval (Winter-Spring 1999)
• Japanese Supreme Court Affirms Legalization of Parallel Importation (Autumn 1997)

Remedies

• Quick and Effective IP Enforcement in Japanese Courts/Method Claims Extend To Use of the Method Only (Autumn 1999)
• Big Change in Measurement for Japanese Patent Infringement Damages? Tokyo District Court Awards $23.5 Million in Lost Profits Damages (Autumn 1998)
• The JPO’s Industrial Property Committee Proposed to Increase Patent Infringement Damages (Autumn 1997)
• The JPO’s Review of the Appropriateness of Intellectual Property Damages (Spring-Summer 1997)

Ownership and Employee’ Invention

• Tokyo District Court Awards Reasonable Remuneration to an Employed Invention Beyond Amount Prescribed in the Word Rule (Spring 2000)

Jurisdiction and Judicial System

• A Major Change for Japanese Patent Enforcement (Spring 2000)
• Japan-U.S. Patent Infringement Litigation Comparison: a Visit to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Autumn 1998)
• Practices of Patent Litigation in Japanese Courts (Spring-Summer 1998)

Trademark Law

• Protection Of A Color Under The Law Of The United States, Germany, And Japan (Autumn 1999)
• Protection of Foreign Well-Known Trademarks in Japan: Cases in Which A "Piratical" Trademark Registration is Rejected (Winter 1997)
• Trademark Law Revision (Spring 1996)

Copyright Law

• Supreme Court Found No Originality on Typeface (Autumn 2000)
• Is a Video Game a Cinematographic Work? - Osaka District Court Confirms the Application of the Distribution Right for a Cinematographic Work to a Video Game (Autumn 1999)
• Report of Multimedia Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee in Japan (Winter 1997)

Other IP Laws

• Japan’s New Plant Variety Protection System (Spring-Summer 1998)
• Trends and Direction of Reform of Japanese Design Law (Spring-Summer 1997)

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