Fumio Takahashi Articles of Articles
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IP High Court Case Regarding Patent Inventorship: Patent Inventor Must Be Human
Date of IPHC Decision: January 30, 2025IPHC Case Number: 2024(Gyo-ko)10006Tokyo District Court Case Number: 2023(Gyo-u)5001Date of Tokyo District Court Decision (original judgment): May 16, 2024Case Type: Suit for Revocation of Administrative Disposition Dismissing a Patent ApplicationPlaintiff/Pate
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Nintendo Filed a Lawsuit against Palworld for Pokémon Games Patents
On September 19, 2024, Nintendo Co., Ltd. announced that the company and The Pokémon Company, its subsidiary, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. in the Tokyo District Court, contending that “Palworld” infringes the following three patents related to Pokémon series, a well-k
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Recent Trends in Business-Related Inventions
The Japanese Patent Office (JPO) updated its annual report on “Recent Trends in Business-Related Inventions” in November 2023. The report has summarized patent filings and examination trends in business-related inventions between 1997 and 2021. As for the 2020 updates, please refer to our past new