The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has introduced a measure known as "service by publication" for documents that cannot be delivered to the intended recipient, by instead publishing the relevant information in the Official Gazette and the Patent Gazette, posting the information at the JPO or making the information accessible by other such means.
The Japan Patent Office (JPO), together with the USPTO, the EPO, the CNIPA and the KIPO, has published a comparison table that summarizes the laws, examination guidelines and exemplary cases concerning AI-related inventions, which was approved by the five offices (IP5 Offices) in June 2023.
The Grand Panel found that production of a system composed of a server located abroad and domestic user terminals constituted infringement of Japanese Patent No. 6526304, owned by Dwango, the appellant, the patent being directed to an invention of a system comprising a server and plural terminal devices connected by a network.
On February 13, 2023, the Japan Patent Office (JPO) announced that the JPO will introduce a measure that allows applicants of patent applications to request suspension of examination of divisional applications filed from applications that are pending trial (appeal) proceedings.
The present case is an IP High Court Grand Panel case in which the court upheld the cumulative application of clauses (2) and (3) of Article 102 for the presumption of the amount of damages.
On July 15, 2022, a Cabinet Order announcing the dates of implementation of some of the previously reported revisions to the IP Laws was approved by the Cabinet.
As agreed by the WIPO member states, all sequence listings accompanying patent applications filed in the JPO on or after July 1, 2022, will be required to comply with WIPO Standard ST.26.
