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英語: ビジネス独自の英語の言い回し

ビジネス英語の表現でよかったと思えた本があったのでメモ。 日本人ですが、NECで30年以上海外営業をされていた原一宏さんが書かれた書籍で、日本人の視点で意外なビジネス英語表現がまとめてあります。 世界基準のビジネス英語表現 posted with ヨメレバ 原…

Japan: JPO Asks for Comments on Draft Guideline to Prohibit Multiple-Dependent Claims

Previously, I posted that JPO was considering prohibiting mutiple-depedent claims. www.patent-topics-explorer.com Currently, the restrictions against mutiple-depedent claims are scheduled to take effect on April 1, and the draft of the rev…

Japan: Draft bill of Secret Patent System be Submitted to Diet by End of Feb

An expert panel on the economic security bill submitted a report to the government, recommending that the bill go forward, including Japan's secret patent system. www.japantimes.co.jp The government plans to submit the bill to the Diet by …

Japan: Legislative Framework for Secret Patent System Proposed by Expert Panel

Japanese Gov is discussing to implemet new legislation of secret patent system as below. mainichi.jp A legislative framework for a secret patent system was proposed by an expert panel and published as below (in Japanese) 提言骨子の目次(特…

Japan: METI Asks for Public Comments to Formulate "Good-Faith Negotiation Guideline" of SEPs

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been holding the "Study Group on the Ideal Trading Environment for Licensing of Standard-Essential Patents," which has been held six times as of now. In July 2021, an interim report in…

Japan: Japanese Gov will consider to implement "secret patent" system in this Diet session

According to Japan Times posted below, Japanese Gov plans to submit the draft legislation to implement "secret patent" system in Japan. The detail is still unclear, but it is important for patent practitioners to monitor what patent will b…

Japan & Follow-up: Can Inventor of a patent be corrected in Japan?

The other day, I wrote about the practices of correcting inventors in Japan. On Dec 28th, JPO's Q&A on inventor's amendment was updated, and there are also a variety of amendment and affidavit forms available for reference. www.patent-topi…

Japan: Can Inventor be Corrected in Japan?

Previously, I introduced a case in which a Canadian Federal Court admit to correct the inventor in the patent after its registration. On the other hand, is it possible to correct inventor in Japan? I would like to briefly discuss this belo…

Japan: Public Comments on "Draft Guidelines for Business Collaboration with Startups and Investment in Startups"

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) are currently working together to draft the revised guideline for business collaboration and investment in startups. This time, they have started…

Japan: Intellectual property-related fees to be raised

The Cabinet has approved the following intellectual property-related fee increases. It will take effect on April 1, 2022. It may be a good idea to review the necessity of maintaining patent rights in Japan. www.meti.go.jp (1)Patent Befor…

Japan: Clarification of "Deemed Export" Control in Security Trade Control

In Japan, security trade control is governed by the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law, and technical information is also subject to these regulations. It is important to know whether you are subject to these regulations or whe…

Japan: Discussion on the Revision of the Copyright Act in the Copyright Subcommittee of the 21st term Cultural Council

"第21期文化審議会著作権分科会法制度小委員会" has been convened and the following matters are being discussed based on the "Intellectual Property Promotion Plan 2021 (知的財産推進計画2021)" and other government policies. Main disucssion…

Japan: How will Japan Patent Information Platform "J-PlatPat" provide the gazette information after the gazette system renewal?

As posted previously, Japan Patent Office (JPO) will launch the new patent publication system. The deteials are discussed as below. Please see the post below, if you have interest on this matter. I will focus on the impact on Japan Patent …

Japan: JPO has published its seminar materials to explain the API pilot program

Japan Patent Office (JPO) has published its seminar materials to explain the pilot program to distribute patent information via API as below (in Japanese). https://www.jpo.go.jp/system/laws/sesaku/data/document/api-provision/01.pdf As prev…

Japan: Digitalization of Civil Procedure

According to Nikkei Shinbun as below, Japan Supreme Court is going to revise the Rules of Civil Procedure around next year to allow for web-based submission of briefs in civil suits. In the summer or autumn of 2022, the Tokyo District Cour…

Japan: JPO will launch new patent publication system

Japan Patent Office (JPO) previously announced the plan to lauch the new patent publication system in April 2022. According to their announcement, it loos like that there is no chage to the timelie of lauch of this system. www.jpo.go.jp Wh…

Japan: Japan Patent Office will launch the pilot program to access patent information via API in April 2022

Japan Patent Office (JPO) has announced that it will start the pilot program to permit the access to patent information via API in April 2022. However, the number of IDs in each entitiy, the number of access, and the accessable information…

Japan: Public Comments on "Draft Implementation Guidance for Data Handling Rules on Platforms

Public Comment on "Draft Implementation Guidance for Data Handling Rules on Platforms" is now open. The deadline is Dec 16, 2021. The below is the link to the openned public comment (in Japanese). 「プラットフォームにおけるデータ取扱いルー…

Japan: Japan Patent Office releases the revised version of COMPARATIVE STUDY ON COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED INVENTIONS/SOFTWARE RELATED INVENTIONS in the US, Europe and Japan

Japan Patent Office (JPO) releases the revised version of COMPARATIVE STUDY ON COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED INVENTIONS/SOFTWARE RELATED INVENTIONS in the US, Europe and Japan. In this version, they newly add the secition to analyse Inventive Step/…