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24/12/03 Japan: International Application Fees Revised: January 1, 2025

24/11/01 Japan-U.S. Collaborative Search Pilot Program Completed

24/08/20 Japan: International Application Fees Revised: September 1, 2024

24/03/26 Japan: Summary of the IP Lump-sum Law to be enforced on April 1, 2024

24/03/01 Japan: Trademark Consent System

24/01/22 Japan: IP Lump-Sum Act Now in Effect

23/12/06 Japan: International Application Fees Revised

23/11/27 Japan: Act for Partial Revision of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (IP Lump-sum Act) promulgated and the Effective Date Decided

23/08/02 Japan: International Application Fees Revised

23/07/13 Japan: Act for Partial Revision of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (IP Lump-sum Act) promulgated

23/06/30 Japan: Relaxation of requirements for restoration of rights due to the expiration of a procedural period

23/03/06 Germany Deposits Ratification of the Agreement on the European Court of Unity (UPCA) , UPCA to (be issued June 1, 2023)

23/03/03 Japan: Operation of suspension of examination for divisional applications in which the original application is pending trial (effective April 1, 2023)

23/02/28 EPO fee revision (from April 1, 2023)

23/01/26 The Cabinet Approves the Cabinet Order for Establishing the Effective Date for Partial Revision of the Patent Law and other related laws

22/12/27 Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)

22/12/20 Japan: International Application Fees Revised

22/11/18 Japan: Copyright Decision on Octopus Slide

22/11/14 Japan: USPTO – JPO Collaborative Search Pilot Program Expansion and Simplified Procedure

22/10/17 Japan: prepayment will be only by cash (bank transfer, etc.) from June 1, 2023

22/10/06 Japan: International Application Fees Revised from November 1, 2022

22/08/16 Japan: Examination Criteria for Trademarks Consisting solely of Color, as Seen in the Opinion

22/07/25 Japan: Tighter controls on the influx of counterfeit goods and abolition of two-step payment of individual fees

22/06/29 Taiwan : Mandatory submission of sequence tables under the provisions of WIPO standard ST.26 from August 1, 2022

22/06/09 Japan: International Application Fees Revised

22/06/08 WIPO: Submission of Sequence Listings in accordance with the provisions of WIPO Standard ST.26

22/04/26 Singapore: IPOS introduces new filing system (IPOS Digital Hub) and fees

22/04/01 On April 1, 2022, a number of patent and other legal amendments went into effect

22/02/28 Multiple dependent claims depending on other multiple dependent claims will no longer be allowed in Japan

22/01/28 Japan April 1, 2022 Transitional measures for revision of patent, trademark registration, and renewal registration fees

22/01/17 Japan’s Patent Law Revised: Major Draft Amendments

22/01/17 Changes to fee rates for patent, trademark and renewal registration from April 1, 2022

22/01/17 Patent, trademark and renewal registration fees will be revised on April 1, 2022 (follow-up report)

21/12/17 Multiple dependent claims depending on other multiple dependent claims will no longer be allowed in Japan

21/10/01 Changes to fee rates for patent, trademark and renewal registration from April 1, 2022

21/09/16 The Cabinet Approves the Cabinet Order for Establishing the Effective Date for Partial Revision of the Patent Law and other related laws

21/05/17 Explanation of China’s Copyright Law coming into force in June 2021

21/05/14 The Diet passed a bill to amend the Patent Law on 14 May 2021

21/01/22 The JPO Appeal System Handbook: Japanese and English Editions are Available

20/12/25 The UK’s Brexit: Impact on Trade Marks and Designs in the European Union

20/12/24 Guide to 2021 Holiday Schedule in Japan

20/12/08 Revised Patent Rules in India (2020): Submission of Statement of Working (Form 27)

20/11/16 Introduction of antibody patent infringement case (Asamura NEWS (November 16, 2020))

20/11/16 Introduction of antibody patent infringement case (Asamura NEWS (November 16, 2020))

16/01/14 Extension of patent term, Supreme Court decision (Asamura NEWS (Volume 19) )

15/11/27 Recent remarkable court’s decisions in Japan in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields (Asamura NEWS (Volume 17) )

15/07/22 Japan Patent Office announced their interim handling procedures regarding “gproduct by process” claims (Asamura NEWS (Volume 16) )

15/06/19 DOE may successfully work to prevent a third party from avoiding the patented process by geometric isomers (Asamura NEWS (Volume 15))

14/07/11 Patent Term Txtension in Japan (Asamura NEWS (Volume 10) )

14/05/19 Japan is honing in on regenerative therapy (Asamura NEWS (Volume 09) )