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• 2015.03.31

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  Inventive step was approved in medicinal invention related to a specific dosage and administration, and JPO board of appeal’s decision was reversed.
• 2015.03.31

  IP News
  Crystal Structure of prior invention in prior application was misunderstood, and JPO board of appeal’s decision was reversed.
• 2014.07.03

  IP News
  IP High Court decided contrary to the JPO’s Examination Guidelines of Patent Term Extension in Japan
• 2014.04.01

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  IP high court decided that there is an error in the finding of the cited invention in a JPO board of appeal’s decision.
• 2014.04.01

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  IP high court decided that there is a violation of the procedure on adopting a reason for refusal that is different from the reasons of the examiner’s final rejection without notifying the plaintiff thereof, in the JPO board of appeal’s decision.
• 2014.03.27

  IP News
  IP high court approved the inventive step of claimed invention because main uses are different even if some other uses are common between claimed invention and cited invention.
• 2013.01.13

  IP News
  TECHNICAL SCOPE OF FUNCTIONAL CLAIM LANGUAGES BE DETERMINED IN LIGHT OF WHETHER PERSON SKILLED COULD HAVE DEDUCTED THE ACCUSED STRUCTURE FROM THE PATENT SPECIFICATION
• 2013.01.09

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  Inventive step was denied because new knowledge was not concretely described in specification of claimed invention.
• 2013.01.09

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  Inventive step was approved based on the state of the art that there were still many unexplained issues in this matter on the priority date.
• 2012.07.30

  IP News
  CLAIM ELEMENT CONSTRUED NARROWLY USING DESCRIPTINS OF SPECIFICATION