April 2012
Examination Standards Office
Followings are the English texts of the Examination Guidelines for Patent and Utility Model in Japan. When any ambiguity of interpretation is found in this provisional translation, the Japanese text shall prevail.
Applicable periods and applications of this Guidelines <PDF 58KB>
Contents
Part Ⅰ Description and Claims
Chapter 1 Requirements for Description and Claims <PDF 725KB>
Chapter 2 Requirements of Unity of Invention <PDF 179KB> * Examples are to be prepared
(Reference) Requirements for Unity of Application <PDF 1,051KB> * Applied to the application on or before December 31, 2003
Chapter 3 Requirements for Disclosure of Information on Prior Art Document <PDF 149KB>
Part Ⅱ Requirements for Patentability
Index <PDF 82KB>
Chapter 1 Industrially Applicable Inventions <PDF 440KB>
Chapter 2 Novelty and Inventive Step <PDF 295KB>
Chapter 3 Patent Act Article 29bis <PDF 160KB>
Chapter 4 Patent Act Article 39 <PDF 213KB>
Chapter 5 Treatment of Information Disclosed on the Internet as Prior Art <PDF 79KB>
Part Ⅲ Amendment of Description, Claims and Drawings
Amendment of Description, Claims and Drawings <PDF 3,716KB>
Part Ⅳ Priority
Chapter 1 Priority under the Paris Convention <PDF 122KB>
Chapter 2 Internal Priority <PDF 105KB>
Part Ⅴ Special Applications
Chapter 1 Division of Application <PDF 478KB>
Chapter 2 Conversion of Application <PDF 112KB>
Chapter 3 Patent Application Based on Utility Model Registration <PDF 116KB>
Part Ⅵ Patent Term Extension
Patent Term Extension <PDF 68KB>
Part Ⅶ Examination Guidelines for Inventions in Specific Fields
Chapter 1 Computer Software-Related Inventions <PDF 614KB>
Chapter 2 Biological Inventions <PDF 403KB> * Examples of Inventions Relating to Protein Conformation are to be prepared
Chapter 3 Medicinal Inventions <PDF 203KB>
Part Ⅷ Foreign Language Application
Foreign Language Application <PDF 271KB>
Part Ⅸ Procedure of Examination
Procedure of Examination <PDF 590KB>
Part Ⅹ Utility Model
Chapter 1 Establishment of the Report of Utility Model Technical Opinion <PDF 142KB>
Chapter 2 Basic Requirements for Utility Model Registration <PDF 122KB>
<Appendix>
Measurement Act <PDF 61KB> [Act No. 51 of 1992 (extract)]
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[Last updated 25 April 2012]
