Western Calendar
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Japanese Patents
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Overseas Patents
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Social Trends
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1400
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1474
Venetian Patent Law
(Establishment of First Patent Law)
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1500
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1600
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1624
English patent law
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1623
Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa family
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1700
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1752
lightning arrester
(by Franklin)
1790
U.S. Constitution
1791
French patent law
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1787
Kansei Reform
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1800
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1814
locomotive engine invented (by Stephenson)
1815
Russian patent law
1851
sewing machine invented
1867
Italian patent law
dynamite invented (by Nobel)
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1853
Commodore Perry's Ships demand opening of Japan
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1868
(first year of the Meiji Era)
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1877
patent law adopted in unified Germany
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1868
Meiji Reforms in Japan
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1880
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1884 (year 17 of the Meiji Era)
trademark bylaws
1885 (year 18 of the Meiji Era)
Patent Monopoly Act created a founation for a system of patent rights in Japan
1888 (year 21 of the Meiji Era)
design bylaws enacted
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1887
phonograph invented to record sound on a plate (by Edison)
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1885
the first Itoh cabinet is formed
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1890
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1890 (year 23 of the Meiji Era)
patent for a wooden weaving machine driven by human power registered (invented by
Sakichi Toyoda)
1892 (year 25 of the Meiji Era)
patent for a dry battery registered (by Senzo Okui)
1894 (year 27 of the Meiji Era)
spherical property adhesion
method patent registered (by Kokichi Mikimoto)
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1893
Diesel engine (by Diesel)
1895
wireless communication
method (by Marconi)
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1890
traffic between Tokyo and Yokohama opened
1893
Tohoku line opened to traffic
1897
"fashion boom"
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1900
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1905 (year 38 of the Meiji Era)
new utility model law
1908 (year 41 of the Meiji Era)
patent for manufacture of a condiment having as a main component glutaminic acid soda (by Kikunae Ikeda)
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1904
Japanese-Russian war breaks out
1909
Yamanote line starts operations
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1912
(first year of the Taisho Era)
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1913 (year 2 of the Taisho Era)
patent for tortoise-shaped scrubbing brush registered (by Masaemon Nisio)
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1917
Soviet Constitution
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1914
Tokyo train station start
operations
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1920
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1925 (year 14 of the Taisho Era)
patent for directional antenna for electric waves registered (by Syuji Yagi)
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1922
Einstein: Japan
1923
Kanto earthquake
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1926
(first year of the Showa Era)
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1926 (first year of the Showa Era)
patent for phototelegraphic method registered (by Yasujiro Niwa)
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1928
penicilin (by Fleming)
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1930
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1934 (year 9 of the Showa Era)
Old Complex of the Patent Office completed
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1935
nylon (by Karohzasu)
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1940
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1941
polyester (by Whinfield)
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1941
Pacific war breaks out
1945
Pacific war ends
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1950
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1950 (year 25 of the Showa Era)
electrostatic induction field effect transistor patent registered (by Junichi Nishizawa)
1959 (year 34 of the Showa Era)
Patent Law, New Utility Model Law, Design Law, revised Trademark Law
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1952
NHK broadcasts start (Tell me your Name)
1958
the 10,000 yen note is issued
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1960
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1963 (year 38 of the Showa Era)
patent for synthetic leather registered (by Fukujima)
1967 (year 42 of the Showa Era)
patent for color image reception tube using the trinitron method registered (by Susumu Yoshida and 2 others)
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1967
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) founded
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1964
Tokyo Olympics
traffic on Tokaido Shinkansen Line starts
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1970
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1975 (year 50 of the Showa Era)
Japan joins the World Intellectual Property Right Organization
1978 (year 60 of the Showa Era)
international applications based on the Patent Cooperation Treaty start
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1973
European Patent Treaty
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1970
Osaka International Expo
1972
Okinawa returned
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1980
1989
(first year of the Heisei Era)
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1985 (year 60 of the Showa Era)
100 years of the industrial property rights system
1989 (first year of the Heisei Era)
the Present Patent Office Complex completed
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1982
high-speed traffic starts on the Shinkansen line
1988
Seikan tunnel operations start
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1990
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1990 (year 2 of the Heisei Era)
first electronic applications in the world are accepted
1992 (year 4 of the Heisei Era)
system for registration of service marks introduced<
1994 (year 6 of the Heisei Era)
system for unexamined new utility models introduced
1995 (year 7 of the Heisei Era)
applications for patents are
now accepted in English
Patent number 2 million issued
1996 (year 8 of the Heisei Era)
system for filing objections after a patent has been granted is introduced
1997 (year 9 of the Heisei Era)
Accession to the Trademark Law Treaty
1998 (year 10 of the Heisei Era)
Acceptance of electronic applications via personal computer
1999 (year 11 of the Heisei Era)
Opening of the Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL)
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1995
World Trade Organization (WTO) founded
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1992
Yamagata Shinkansen line starts operations
1995
Hanshin/Awaji Earthquake
1998
Nagano Winter Olympics
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2000
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2000 (year 12 of the Heisei Era)
Digitization of procedures related to designs, trademarks and appeals (final decisions)
Accession to the Madrid Protocol
2001 (year 13 of the Heisei Era)
The National Center for Industrial Property Information (NCIPI) becomes an independent administrative institution
2002 (year 14 of the Heisei Era)
Formulation of Intellectual Property Policy Outline
Basic law on Intellectual Property
2003 (year 15 of the Heisei Era)
Establishment of Intellectual Property Strategy Headguarters
Formulation of The Program for Promoting the Creation,Protection and Exploitation of Intellecttual Property
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2001
The first World Intellectual Property Day (April 26) Social Trends
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2001
Central Government Reform
2002
FIFA World Cup Joint Hosts: Japan and Korea
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