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• 2011.06.01

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  Bulletin: Is Substance to be Subjected to Patent Term Extension in Japan, “Active Ingredient” or “Approved Drug”?
• 2011.04.20

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  IP Court Case Summary:INTERNET COMMERCIAL SERVICE OF RECORDING AND TRANSMITTING TELEVISION PROGRAMS FOR CUSTOMERS CONSTITUTES INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
• 2011.04.04

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  Bulletin: Is Experimental Data in Original Description Essential for Supporting Medical Invention?
• 2011.03.13

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  IP Court Case Summary:H23 (gyoke) 10055: There is no inventive step because “new medicinal use” is not found in claimed invention.
• 2011.03.01

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  IP Court Case Summary:In re FUSHIMI Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.H22(gyoke)10163:It is not against Patent Law Article 29-2 to find the state of the art at the time of the application, based on the publication which was published after the time of application
• 2011.02.16

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  IP Court Case Summary: “Functional claim was construed to be infringed because the accused product uses a mechanism similar to that disclosed in the application”– STUDIO OCEANMARK v. LAYLAX INC., H21(wa)34337
• 2011.01.23

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  IP Court Case Summary:”Preamble language is treated as limiting the scope of the claim”– Pioneer v. Navitime Japan. H21(wa)35184
• 2011.01.11

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  IP Court Case Summary:In re SHOWA DENKO KK H22(gyoke) 10104: The inventive step is not denied due to the disincentive to combine citation-1 with citation-2 in terms of the chemical reaction.
• 2011.01.10

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  IP Court Case Summary:”Technical Scope of Claim Narrowly Construed from Disclosures of Application”– Echigoseika Co., Ltd. v. Sato Foods Industries Co., Ltd., H21(wa)7718
• 2010.12.27

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  IP Court Case Summary:In re Regents of University of California H22(gyoke) 10029: The invention related to the cells is not essentially described in the citations when the cells in the citations can’t be distributed to third party by authors.