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• Copyright Law Is Amended (June 99)
• Patent Law Amendment Passes the Diet (May 99)
• Supreme Court Decides for Generic Drug Makers (Apr. 99)
• Industrial Property Digital Library Opens (Apr. 99)
• "Intellectual Property Basic Law" Contemplated by MITI (Mar. 99)
• Japanese Patent Office to Evaluate the Financial Value of Patents (Mar. 99)
• Patent and Trademark Law Amendment Takes Shape (Feb. 99)
• JPO Announces Simultaneous Examination Among the Trilateral Offices (Feb. 99)
• Patent Attorney Law Will Be Amended in 2000 (Feb. 99)
• Priority Documents from EPO (Dec. 98)
• "Super Bar Code Wars" Case (Nov. 98)
• The Japanese Go on the Offensive (Nov. 98)
• LTOs Spring Up in Japan (Nov. 98)
• Highest Damage Award in Japanese IP history (Oct. 98)
• Supreme Court To Improve Patent Litigation Capability among Japanese Courts (Oct. 98)
• Matsushita to Beef Up its IP Muscle (Sept. 98)
• New Guidelines for Licensing Government-owned Patents (June 98)
• Tokyo High Court Renders an Awaited Decision concerning Generic Drugs (Apr. 98)

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Dec. 1999	Foley + Lardner Guide to the 1999 Patent Law - an outcome of the Washington Harbor Round Table discussions held on December 14, 1999. Click for the HTML format file (62 kb) or WP 5.1 format file (as received)(not a WORD file) (102 kb). Courtesy of Prof. Harold C. Wegner.
Dec. 1999	An English summary of the 1999 Patent Law amendment in Japan by Shoichi Okuyama. Click for the HTML format file (20 kb) or the RTF format file (30 kb).
April 1999	An English translation of Supreme Court Decision on April 16, 1999 on the issue of experimental use exemption and generic drug testing.Click for English translation in HTML format (8 kb).
June 1998	New Annual Report of JPO was published first at its Web site and in the book format in August 1998. Click for an English summary in HTML format (19 kb).
Mar. 22	A major doctrine of equivalents decision by Japanese Supreme Court has been translated into English by Chris T. Mizumoto.Click for WordPerfect Ver. 5.1 file (18 kb) or HTML file (19 kb).
Jan. 5	A very comprehensive and up-to-date paper by Rick Lilley on the Japanese licensing practice. Click for WordPerfect Ver. 6/7/8 (129 kb) or HTML file (69 kb).
Jan. 5	A paper by Shoichi OKUYAMA on the patent litigation practice in Japan. Click for WordPerfect Ver. 6/7/8 (53 kb) or HTML file (38 kb).
Sep. 3	A paper by Jinzo Fujino on the recent Supreme Court decision in the BBS Aluminum Wheel case concerning parallel import including an English translation of the entire decision. Click for MS Word file (33 kb) or HTML file (26 kb).

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