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Patent/Utility Model

• 2012.05.20

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  “The advantageous effects should not be recognized when data showed limited examples and limited methods.”
• 2012.01.30

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  IP HIGH COURT ISSUED EN BANC DECISION ON PRODUCT-BY-PROCESS CLAIM
• 2012.01.29

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  IP COURT CASE SUMMARY “PLAITIFF FAILED TO SHOW THAT ACCUSED DEVICE PERFORMES A CLAIMED FUNCTION”-H20(Wa)12409
• 2012.01.03

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  IP Court Case Summary IPHC REVERSED BOAD OF APPEAL DECISION IN TERMS OF SIMILARITY OF DESIGN, H23(Gyo-Ke)10159
• 2012.01.03

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  When the citation does not mention “problem to be solved” or “suggestion” for the difference between the claimed invention and the citation, inventive step should not be denied.
• 2012.01.03

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  The claimed invention can be led to the non-inventive step from this citation even if citation includes the sentences which seem reverse to the claimed invention.
• 2012.01.03

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  Inventive Step is denied even if the compliance for patients is improved.
• 2011.12.12

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  Claim language “immediately adjacent” construed using descriptions of the application–Smiths Group PLC v. Covidien Japan. H22(wa)23188
• 2011.10.12

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  Even if, among the substances having one property, substance having another property is described by chance, it should not be immediately recognized that substance having another property is described in cited.
• 2011.10.12

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  The trial against examiner’s decision of rejection demanded by the attorney who is entrusted by all the joint owners of the right to obtain a patent is apparently for all the joint owners even if only one name