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4(5)(a) Right of Reproduction / Right of Adaptation

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2012 (Ne) 10027,August 8, 2012[Intellectual Property High Court](“Fishing game” case)

2011 (Ne) 10010, May 10, 2011 [Intellectual Property High Court]( Ruins pictures case)

2000(Ne)1516,September 6, 2002[Tokyo High Court](Arrangement case)

2001 (Ju) 952, April 25, 2002 [Supreme Court](Used videogame software case)

1999 (Ne) 5641,February 18, 2002[Tokyo High Court](“SETSU GETSU KA”case)

1999 (Ju) 922, June 28, 2001 [Supreme Court](“Esashi-Oiwake”case)

1999 (Wa) 13552,January 23, 2001[Tokyo District Court](“Hijikata Toshizo”case)

1998(Wa)17018,May 16, 2000[Tokyo District Court](Stardigio case)

1975 (O) 324, September 7, 1978 [Supreme Court](“One Rainy Night in Tokyo”case)

  1. IP Judgments in Japan
    1. Grand Panel Cases of the IP High Court
    2. Important IP Judgment by Category
      1. 1(1)(a)Eligibility
      2. 1(1)(b) Novelty/ Inventive Step
      3. 1(1)(c) Description Requirement of the Claim/the Specification
      4. 1(1)(d) Misappropriated Application
      5. 1(1)(e) Requirements for Divisional Application
      6. 1(2) Claim Construction
      7. 1(3) Amendment/ Correction
      8. 1(4) Requirement for Registration of Extension of Duration of Patent Right
      9. 1(5) Procedure for Suits against Appeal/Trial Decisions made by the JPO
      10. 1(6) Indirect Infringement
      11. 1(7) Infringement under the Doctrine of Equivalents
      12. 1(8) Exhaustion, Abuse of Right, or other Defenses
      13. 1(9) The Amount of Damages
      14. 1(10) Calculation of the Employee's Invention Compensation
      15. 1(11) Inventorship
      16. 1(12) Jurisdiction and Others
      17. 2(1)(a) Common Name(Article 3, paragraph(1),item(1))
      18. 2(1)(b) Distinctiveness/Distinctiveness acquired through Use (Article 3, paragraph (1), item(3), paragraph (2))
      19. 2(1)(c) The Mark to cause Damage to Public Policy) (Article 4, paragraph(1), item(7))
      20. 2(1)(d) Similarity (Article 4, paragraph(1), item(10), item(11))
      21. 2(1)(e) The Mark to cause Confusion (Article 4, paragraph(1), item(15))
      22. 2(1)(f) Prior use
      23. 2(1)(g) Others
      24. 2(2) The Registered Trademark not in Use (article 50)
      25. 2(3) Unfair Use of the registered Trade Mark
      26. 2(4) Use as a trade mark
      27. 2(5) Similarity of Marks
      28. 2(6) Similarity of Goods or Services
      29. 2(7) Exhaustion, Abuse of Right, or other Defenses
      30. 2(8) The Amount of Damages
      31. 2(9) Binding effect of the JPO decision
      32. 2(10) Jurisdiction and Others
      33. 3(1) Validity of the Design Right Registration
      34. 3(2) Similarity of Goods
      35. 4(1) Copyrightability
      36. 4(2) Works of Computer Programming
      37. 4(3) Compilations
      38. 4(4) Copyright Ownership
      39. 4(5)(a) Right of Reproduction / Right of Adaptation
      40. 4(5)(b) Right of public Transmission
      41. 4(5)(c)Right to Rent Out
      42. 4(6) Limitation on Copyright
      43. 4(7) Liability of Joint Tortfeasors/Secondary Liability
      44. 4(8) The Moral Rights of Author
      45. 4(9) The Amount of Damages
      46. 4(10) Jurisdiction and Others
      47. 5(1) Unfair Competition
      48. 5(2) Indication of Goods or Business
      49. 5(3) Identity of Shapes
      50. 5(4) The Domain Name
      51. 5(5) The Indication likely to cause misconception
      52. 5(6) The Act of making or circulating a false Allegation
      53. 5(7) trade secret
      54. 5(8) Jurisdiction and Others
      55. 6(1) Right of Publicity