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[Important Notice] Termination of Examination Fee Deferment Program The Japanese Patent Office has announced that the Examination Fee Deferment Program will end March 31,2012. Accordingly, starting April 1, 2012, the official examination fees must be paid to the Japanese Patent Office at the same time as filing a Request for Substantive Examination and it will no longer be possible to defer payment of the examination fees. If you have any questions regarding this notice, please do not hesitate to contact us at alp@shigapatent.com.  ▸ More |
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Japanese Patent Practice We explain Japanese patent prosecution procedures from the filing of a patent application through prosecution at the JPO. Japanese National Holidays in 2011 International Conferences in 2011 |
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Shiga IP News Vol. 30 (August 2011) discusses recent trends at the JPO, an overview of Japanese Patent Prosecution procedures, and the impact of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 on Japanese industries and how we are recovering from the damage. Following Vol. 3 of our Trademarks and Designs Newsletter in which we focused on the Examination Guidelines regarding "similarity of goods", in Vol. 4, we explain how the Japanese Patent Office determines similarity of goods over different classes. |
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Seminar by overseas associate Shiga hosted a seminar regarding drafting and prosecuting claims and applications and patent trolls for our domestic clients in May 2011. The seminar covered practical points in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in consideration of patent litigation and licensing, and patent troll trends and the countermeasures used against patent trolls based on actual experience. If you would like to know more about our seminars, please click here. |
