{"id":7424,"date":"2020-07-21T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2022-04-15T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T02:55:21","slug":"the-cabinet-approves-the-decision-on-the-enforcement-date-of-the-act-for-partial-revision-of-the-patent-act-and-other-related-acts-jul-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/2020\/07\/21\/the-cabinet-approves-the-decision-on-the-enforcement-date-of-the-act-for-partial-revision-of-the-patent-act-and-other-related-acts-jul-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cabinet Approves the Decision on the Enforcement Date of the Act for Partial Revision of the Patent Act and Other Related Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jul 21, 2020<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr style=\"border-style: solid; background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; height: 7px; width: 930;\" \/>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 24px;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">The Cabinet Approves the Decision on the Enforcement Date of the Act for Partial Revision of the Patent Act and Other Related Act<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<hr style=\"border-style: solid; background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; height: 7px; width: 930;\" \/>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #333333;\"><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The Cabinet approves the decision on the enforcement date of the Act for Partial Revision of the Patent Act and Other Related Acts. Amendments to the 2019 Patent Law came into effect on April 1, 2020, however, the enforcement date of some of the provisions has been finally determined.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">1. Patent Act<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">\u00a0 Effective October 1, 2020<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">\u3000(1) Visas (See Articles 105-2 &#8211; 105-2-10)<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Establishment of a visa system for neutral technical experts to conduct on-site inspections. It is a system where inspectors may enter the alleged infringer&#8217;s factories, offices or any other places to conduct searches and submit reports to the court to prove the infringement if required.<\/span><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">2. Design Law<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">\u00a0 Effective April 1, 2021\u3000<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">\u3000(1) Multiple applications for multiple designs, as set forth in Article 7, may be filed with a single application.<br \/>\r\n<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">\u3000(2) Revision of the classification of goods: the classification table of goods is abolished, and the criteria for the eligibility of a single design is established in accordance with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Article 7).<br \/>\r\n<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">\u3000(3) Procedural relief provisions (Article 60-10(2), Article 5 of the Patent Law shall apply mutatis mutandis under Article 68)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr style=\"border-style: solid; background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; height: 5px; width: 930;\" \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 21, 2020 The Cabinet Approves the Decision on the Enforcement Date of the Act for Partial Revision of the Patent Act and Other Related Act The Cabinet approves the decision on the enforcement date of the Act for Partial Revision of the Patent Act and Other Related Acts. Amendments to the 2019 Patent Law&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}