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Revision as of 22:03, 4 June 2009

Legislation

See Article 69 of the Japanese Patent law.

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”."

(See also: TRIPS)

External links

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