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| − | + | ==2005 METI Study Group Interim Report== | |
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| + | The executive summary discusses how implementing software innovations always depends on using other software ideas, and concludes: | ||
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| + | :"''The following legal measures come to mind for the near future. Make “Rules on Economic Transactions in the Market” that determine in which case exercising patent rights is a misuse of rights. For example, an exercise of patent rights that obstructs communication between software components, where the patent holder restricts transactions between third parties or exercises his patent right in a manner exceedingly contrary to public interest might qualify as “misuse of patent rights”.''" | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 21:18, 4 June 2009
2005 METI Study Group Interim Report
(source: TRIPS and Software Patents in Japan, Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz)
The executive summary discusses how implementing software innovations always depends on using other software ideas, and concludes:
- "The following legal measures come to mind for the near future. Make “Rules on Economic Transactions in the Market” that determine in which case exercising patent rights is a misuse of rights. For example, an exercise of patent rights that obstructs communication between software components, where the patent holder restricts transactions between third parties or exercises his patent right in a manner exceedingly contrary to public interest might qualify as “misuse of patent rights”."
External links
- Tokyo court orders popular word processor off market, 2005, the main competitor to Microsoft Word in Japan is removed from the market due to patents
