Appeals/Trials

Trial and Appeal News & Updates

• Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property / TOKYO 2024 - JSIP2024 [Last updated 5 September 2024]
• Trial and Appeal Practitioner Study Group Report 2023 (Summary) is released [Last updated 22 March 2024]
• Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property / TOKYO 2023 - JSIP2023 [Last updated 19 September 2023]
• Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property / TOKYO 2022 - JSIP2022 [Last updated 29 September 2022]
• Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property /TOKYO 2021 [Last updated 15 December 2021]
• Comparative Study on Trial and Appeal Practices among JPO, CNIPA and KIPO [Last updated 25 November 2021]
• Handbook for Trial and Appeal System in Japan (2021)（PDF：7,241KB） [Last updated 4 November 2021]
• Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property /TOKYO 2020 [Last updated 17 February 2021]
• Comparative Table of COVID-19 Countermeasures in Trial and Appeal Taken by Japan, China and Korea [Last updated 18 January 2021]
• ‘Manual of “Hantei” (Advisory Opinion) for Essentiality Check（Revised Version）’ and New Operation based on the ‘Manual of “Hantei” (Advisory Opinion) for Essentiality Check（Revised Version）’ [Last updated 1 June 2019]

Standard Trial and Appeal Procedures

• Questions and Answers about Trial and Appeal System
• Manual for Trial and Appeal Proceedings (20th edition)

Information by Trial and Appeal Examination Type

• Changes in the Number of Requests for Appeal against Examiner’s Decision of Refusal
• Changes in the Number of Requests for Trial for Rescission of Trademark Registration
• Opposition to Grant of Patent
• Hantei (Advisory Opinion) System

More Information

• International Cooperation in Trials/Appeals
• Disseminating and raising awareness of the Trial and Appeal System
• Launch of External Provision of English Translations of Trial/Appeal Decisions
• Decisions
• Trial and Appeal Practitioner Study Group Report
• APPEALS DEPARTMENT-Field Outline of the Section
• Schedule of Fees
• Accelerated Appeal Examination
• Oral proceedings in a mock trial court (External link)
• Information on Online Oral Proceedings
• Trial decision on the trial for correction case that includes a change of category from an invention of a “product” to an invention of “a manufacturing process of the product” related to product-by-process claims [Last updated 27 July 2016]