Autumn 2002, Vol 9, Issue 3

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 1 of 2 (Table 1)

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Constitutionality of copyright term extensions
  • The USPTO';s 21^ST Century Strategic Plan: What Does It Mean For American Innovation?
  • Should the written description requirement be applicable outside the priority context?
  • §102(e) Further Amended by Congress
• Japan
  • Did 1999 Revision Damage Calculation Revision Make Lost Profits Award for Japanese Patents Too Easy?
  • Japan';s Supreme Court Decision on the Sales of Used TV Game Software
  • IP Reform Proposals in the United States and Japan: Annual Submission Between the U.S. Government and Japanese Government Under the U.S.-JAPAN Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative
  • Japanese Manufacturer';s Act of Inducing Infringement of US Patents is Allowed

Spring-Summer 2002, Vol 9, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• A View toward the Global Patent: Mutual Exploitation of Examination Results
• Analysis of the Festo Decisions: Practical Application of Rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • The Supreme Court Breaths Life into the Dying Doctrine of Equivalents
  • The Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Written Descriptions of Genetic Materials
  • Congressional Concerns that Gene Patenting May Not Be in the Public's Best Interest
  • Newly Proposed Legislation Requires States to Waive Their Immunity - or Else
• Japan
  • Prime Minister's Science Council Submits Recommendations for Improving Competitiveness Through Intellectual Property

Winter 2002, Vol 9, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• What Japan Should Learn from U.S. Experiences: Tests of Equivalence, Means-Plus-Function Claims and Product-By-Process Claims

• Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Law at the University of Washington (Click here for contact information.)

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • U.S. Supreme Court Will Entertain a Challenge to Copyright Term Extension Act
  • Federal Circuit Takes Another Shot at “Submarine Patents”
  • The Federal Circuit Clarifies the Reach of the “Dedicated to the Public” Doctrine
  • Recent Change in On-Sale Bar Saves a Patent from Certain Invalidity
• Japan
  • Isolating Ingredients from Legally Purchased Pharmaceutical Compound is Within Authority of Owner
  • JPO's New Bill to Revise Patent and Trademark Law WillPrepare Japan for Network Society