Fall 1997, Vol 4, Issue 3

Special Topic:

• Actual Royalty Rates in Patent, Know-How and Computer Program License Agreements in Germany

Patent Law Recent Development

• United States
  • Federal Circuit Rules that §102(f) is Generally Considered Prior Art in §103 Analysis
  • Willful Infringement Requires Substantive Evaluation of Attorney Opinion Letters
    
• Japan
  • The JPO's Industrial Property Committee Proposed to Increase Patent Infringement Damages
  • Japanese Supreme Court Affirms Legalization of Parallel Importation
  • TI's Kilby Patent was Found to be Invalid and thus Unenforceable
• Europe
  • Recent EPO Decisions

Spring/Summer 1997, Vol 4, Issue 2

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Best Mode for Software-Related Inventions 
  • The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Reorganization as a Government Corporation and Various Patent Law Reforms
  • A Direction on Procedural Improvements Suggested by the Supreme Court?: Federal Circuit Rejected District Court's Claim Construction and Granted Judgment of Non-infringement as a Matter of Law
• Japan
  • The JPO's Review of the Appropriateness of Intellectual Property Damages
  • Trends and Direction of Reform of Japanese Design Law
• Europe
  • Key Features of the European Patent Office (EPO) Opposition Procedures
  • Highly Anticipated UK Decision of Biogen v. Medeva about Validity of Biotechnology Patents

Winter 1997, Vol 4, Issue 1

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • U.S. Supreme Court Reversed and Remanded Federal Circuit Hilton Davis en banc Decision
  • Patent Infringement Damages After Rite-Hite
  • Who Should Decide Public Use and Experimental Use Exception
• Japan
  • Protection of Foreign Well-known Trademarks in Japan: Cases in Which a "Piratical" Trademark Registration is Rejected
  • Report of Multimedia Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee in Japan
• Europe