Japanese patent law is based on the first-to-file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act (特許法, Tokkyohō) of Japan. Article 2 defines an...

importance of the notion of the author. Japanese patent law Japanese trademark law Japanese design law Japanese law Koepfle, Leo (January 1937). Copyright...

Trilateral Offices". Japanese patent law Japanese trademark law Intellectual Property High Court F-term, a patent classification used by JPO Japan Intellectual...

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

Union – German patent law – Unitary patent (proposed) – Japanese patent law – Patent law of the People's Republic of China – Patent law in Hong Kong –...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

after patent systems of other civil law countries, particularly Germany and Japan. The PRC's early regulations provided for inventors' patent rights...

invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce their...

France, and also adapted to Japanese circumstances. The Japanese Constitution enacted after World War II is the supreme law in Japan. An independent judiciary...

In Japanese patent law, F-term is a system for classifying Japanese patent documents according to the technical features of the inventions described in...