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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.
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Useful Information |
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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Publications |
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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Seminars |
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.
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