Amicus Curiae Practice is Set to Make Its Statutory Debut in Japan
In the United States and other countries, there is a growing awareness and increasing appreciation of the purpose and value of amicus curiae practice as an aid in adjudicative decision-making. The role...
View ArticleHow to Rewrite Method-of-Treatment Claims to Conform to Japanese Patent Practice
In the United States, claims directed to methods of treating/diagnosing human disease are patentable. On the other hand, in Japan, such claims are unpatentable. Therefore, the applicant is required to...
View ArticleRecent Case Law on the Extraterritorial Reach of Japanese Patents
On July 29, 2022, a Japanese Internet service company published a press release that surprised IP practitioners in Japan. DWANGO INC., the appellant and the plaintiff, lost patent infringement...
View ArticlePast as Prologue: Is there Hope for America’s Patent System?
We need to remember that we’ve seen America's patent system in near complete collapse before. In the 1960s and 1970s the Supreme Court never saw a patent that was valid, which lead to the creation of...
View ArticleJPO Decides WHITNEY HOUSTON Trademark is Descriptive When Used on Music...
At an initial examination proceeding, JPO examiner refused the trademark with respect to all goods in class 9 on the grounds that consumers can easily perceive or conceive the late Whitney Houston, an...
View ArticleWorld Intellectual Property Indicators 2016: Design Patent Highlights
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its annual World Intellectual Property Indicators. The 2016 report dissects the macro trends associated with filing activity and...
View ArticleApple failed to block Swatch’s attempt to acquire the trademark for Steve...
The Swiss watchmaker Swatch's effort to acquire the trademark for "SWATCH ONE MORE THING" has run in to opposition from Apple, which argues the phrase ‘one more thing’ is closely associated with the...
View ArticleMattel fais in Japanese trademark opposition to block ‘Salon BARBIES’
In a recent trademark opposition, the Opposition Board of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) dismissed an opposition by Mattel, Inc. – maker of the world-famous Barbie doll – who claimed “Salon BARBIES” is...
View ArticleU.S. Leads World in Quantum Computing Patent Filings with IBM Leading the Charge
Patenting activities in the quantum computing sector have rapidly increased in recent years, with the U.S. by far the preferred jurisdiction for applicants... One interesting finding from the...
View ArticleThree Outstanding IP Deals of 2017
These IP deals were not necessarily selected for their size, but for their indicative nature of a set of circumstances that exist in current markets that made these deals not only possible, but...
View ArticleDidi Chuxing acquires 150 patents in automotive, self-driving space
International patent brokerage and Intellectual Property advisory firm Tangible IP is poised to announce that it has successfully brokered the sale of a patent portfolio of close to 150 patent assets...
View ArticleProtection Strategies for Growth-Phase Companies
When it comes to the IP rights of your competitors, what you don’t know can hurt you. As your company brings new products to the marketplace, you should consider taking steps to ensure that doing so...
View ArticleTrademark Applications Surge as Overseas Brands Enter U.S. Market
The number of trademark applications being filed by foreign companies with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been growing steadily – and in China’s case rapidly – since 2013. In...
View ArticleCase Study: Recently Granted Epitope-Based Antibody Patents in the United...
Patents involving antibody medicines (antibody patents) are largely grouped into patents specified by antibody amino acid sequences (antibody sequence-based patents) and those not (non-sequence-based...
View ArticleITIF Report Urges G7 to Take Japanese Data Initiative from Concept to Action
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released a report last week that calls on the G7 countries to bring Japan’s “Data Free Flow with Trust” (DFFT) initiative to life....
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