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(Following is contents of original "Manual for Trial and Appeal Proceedings." Some items are available in English in Adobe's PDF format for viewing and printing.)
00-01 | P | U | D | T | Types of Proceedings: Trial and Appeal, etc. |
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00-02 | P | U | D | T | Trial and Appeal Proceedings by Electronic Data Processing System |
00-03 | D | Trials and Appeals concerning International Application for Design Registration |
01-01 | P | U | D | T | Inspection of Document and Submission of Report for Trade Secret (PDF:113KB) |
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07-01 | P | U | D | T | Trial Court (PDF:156KB) |
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07-02 | P | U | D | T | Duties of Bailiff at the Trial Court (PDF:167KB) |
10-02 | P | U | T | Pre-Grant Provision of Information (PDF:161KB) | |
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10-04 | P | U | Post-Grant Provision of Information (PDF:167KB) |
11-01 | P | U | D | T | Notification of Trial and Appeal Numbers, etc. (PDF:264KB) |
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11-02 | P | U | D | T | Notification of Request (Motion) to a Person Having a Registered Right (PDF:165KB) |
16-01 | P | U | D | T | Procedures for Restoration of Models, Samples or Evidences, That Have Been Submitted to the JPO (PDF:257KB) |
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17-01 | P | U | D | T | Service of Documents (PDF:147KB) |
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20-00 | P | U | D | T | Handling of Proceeding Matters (PDF:284KB) |
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23-00 | P | U | D | T | Agent in General (PDF:109KB) |
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23-01 | P | U | D | T | Legal Agent (PDF:85KB) |
23-02 | P | U | D | T | Voluntary Agent (Attorney) (PDF:88KB) |
23-03 | P | U | D | T | Authorized Agent (PDF:24KB) |
23-04 | P | U | D | T | Patent Administrator (PDF:111KB) |
23-05 | P | U | D | T | Sub Agent (PDF:89KB) |
23-06 | P | U | D | T | Curator (PDF:26KB) |
23-07 | P | U | D | T | Unauthorized Representation (PDF:75KB) |
23-08 | P | U | D | T | With or Without an Agent and Trial and Appeal Proceedings (PDF:89KB) |
23-09 | P | U | D | T | Document Certifying Authority of Representation (PDF:116KB) |
23-10 | P | U | D | T | Procedures in the Case Where There Is No Patent Administrator (PDF:172KB) |
23-11 | P | U | D | T | Handling of the Death of an Agent (PDF:29KB) |
23-12 | P | U | D | T | Representative of a Legal Entity and Its Indication (PDF:32KB) |
23-13 | P | U | D | T | Procedure for Appointing a New Agent in the Middle of the Proceedings (PDF:27KB) |
31-00 | P | U | D | T | Eligibility as a Demandant in a Trial for Invalidation (PDF:242KB) |
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31-01 | P | T | Interested Persons (PDF:240KB) | ||
31-02 | P | T | Specific Examples of the Interested Persons (PDF:333KB) |
32-01 | P | U | D | T | Notification of Documentary Proceedings in a Trial for Invalidation (PDF:235KB) |
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33-00 | P | U | D | T | Oral Proceeding Method (PDF:48KB) |
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33-00.1 | P | U | D | T | Trial and Appeal Cases Subject to Oral Proceedings and Timing for Selecting Those Cases (PDF:50KB) |
33-01 | P | U | D | T | Designating a Date of Oral Proceedings (PDF:206KB) |
33-01.1 | P | U | D | T | Notification of the Designated Date of Oral Proceedings (PDF:99KB) |
33-02 | P | U | D | T | Change of the Designated Date of Oral Proceedings (PDF:105KB) |
33-03 | P | U | D | T | Procedure for Handling a Situation Where a Person Is not Appearing on the Designated Date (PDF:107KB) |
33-04 | P | U | D | T | Guidelines for Trial Records of Oral Proceedings (PDF:131KB) |
33-05 | P | U | D | T | Order of Oral Proceedings (PDF:118KB) |
33-06 | P | U | D | T | Use of Recording Devices, etc. in Oral Proceedings (PDF:100KB) |
33-07 | P | U | D | T | Oral Proceedings Statement Brief (PDF:112KB) |
33-08 | P | U | D | T | Notice of Proceeding Matters (PDF:81KB) |
35-00 | P | U | D | T | Examination of Evidence in General (PDF:91KB) |
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35-01 | P | U | D | T | Procedures for Preparation for Examination of Witness, etc. (PDF:149KB) |
35-02 | P | U | D | T | Guidelines for Trial Records of Examination of Evidence (PDF:110KB) |
35-03 | P | U | D | T | Commission for Examination of Evidence by Questioning (PDF:39KB) |
35-04 | P | U | D | T | Order of Examination of Witness (PDF:104KB) |
35-05 | P | U | D | T | Main Points of Examination of Witness (PDF:106KB) |
35-06 | P | U | D | T | Inspection (PDF:109KB) |
35-07 | P | U | D | T | Inspection Conducting Out-of-Court and These Cases (PDF:29KB) |
35-08 | P | U | D | T | Preservation of Evidence (PDF:113KB) |
35-09 | P | U | D | T | Actual Examples of Preservation of Evidence Cases (PDF:95KB) |
35-10 | P | U | D | T | Refund of Money on Deposit Deposited in Advance for Examination of Evidence (PDF:33KB) |
35-11 | P | U | D | T | Authorized Administrative Judges (PDF:32KB) |
35-12 | P | U | D | T | Expert Opinion (PDF:89KB) |
36-01 | P | U | D | T | Ex Officio Principle and Examples of Ex Officio Examination(PDF:108KB) |
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37-00 | P | U | D | T | Order, Inquiry, Notice, etc.(PDF:73KB) |
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37-02 | P | U | D | T | Inquiry(PDF:91KB) |
42-00 | P | U | D | T | Conclusion and Resumption of the Proceedings(PDF:84KB) |
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42-04 | T | Resumption of the Proceedings in Appeal Against an Examiner's Decision of Refusal of Trademarks(PDF:17KB) |
44-01 | P | U | D | T | Matters to Be Stated in Decision(PDF:22KB) |
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46-00 | P | U | D | T | Final and Binding Trial/Appeal Decision, etc.(PDF:297KB) |
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50-00 | P | U | D | T | Handling of a Demand/Request for Trial/Appeal in Which a Company in Bankruptcy Was Requested as a Demandee(PDF:16KB) |
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57-00 | P | U | D | T | Intervention |
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57-01 | P | U | D | T | Types and Requirements of Intervention |
57-02 | P | U | D | T | Non-Compliance with Formality Requirements of (Written) Application of Intervention |
57-05 | P | U | D | T | Effects of Intervention |
57-07 | P | U | D | T | Decision to Approve or Disapprove Intervention |
57-09 | P | U | D | T | Demand for Intervention and Dismissal or Withdrawal of Demand for Trial |
58-00 | P | U | D | T | Hantei (PDF:20KB) |
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58-01 | P | U | D | T | Hantei Procedures (PDF:59KB) |
58-02 | P | U | D | T | Organizations that Provide Hantei and Procedures of Proceedings (PDF:50KB) |
58-03 | P | U | D | T | Proceedings of Hantei (PDF:84KB) |
58-04 | P | Hantei for an Essentiality Check (PDF:39KB) | |||
58-10 | P | U | D | T | Commissioning of the Provision of an Expert Opinion by a Court (PDF:230KB) |
58-12 | P | U | D | Seeking the Opinion of Director of Customs (PDF:17KB) | |
58-14 | P | U | D | T | Asking Opinions and Statement of Opinions (PDF:14KB) |
59-01 | P | U | D | T | Grounds of Exclusion and Recusation, etc. |
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59-02 | P | U | D | T | Effects of a Motion Requesting an Exclusion and Effects of Exclusion Trial Procedures and Decision |
59-03 | P | U | D | T | Effects of a Motion Requesting a Recusation and Effects of Recusation Trial/Appeal Procedures and Decision |
59-05 | P | U | D | T | Determination Method and Actual Examples of Exclusion or Recusation |
61-00.1 | P | Basic Flow of Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal | |||
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61-00.2 | P | Simulated Example of Patent Examination and Appeals | |||
61-01 | P | D | T | Subject to Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal | |
61-02 | P | D | T | Party Concerned of Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal | |
61-03 | P | D | T | Time When a Request for Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal Can Be Filed | |
61-04 | P | D | T | Procedures for Filing a Request for Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal | |
61-05 | P | D | T | Examination of a Request for Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal | |
61-05.1 | P | Appeal Against Examiner's Decision to Dismiss Amendment in a Prior Decision in Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal of a Patent Application | |||
61-06 | P | D | T | Procedure of Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal Proceedings | |
61-07 | P | D | T | Appeal Decision of Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal | |
61-10 | P | D | T | Handling of Cases When an Application is Converted After, or at the Same Time, a Request for Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal is Filed | |
61-11 | P | Notification to Patentees When the Invention Concerning the Said Patent Application is the Same as the Invention Concerning the Patent that Has Been Filed on the Same Date and Already Registered by a Different Applicant in Appeal against Examiner's Decision of Refusal for patent applications | |||
61-12 | T | Handling of Appeal against Examiner's Decision Cases When the Cited Trademarks are Pending in either Trial for Trademark Invalidation or Trial for Rescission of Trademark Registration |
62-02 | P | Handling of an Application, Which Has Been Refused on the Grounds of No Novelty in the Examiner's Decision, However, Which Administrative Judges Decide That It is Appropriate to Refuse on the Grounds of No Inventive Step | |||
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62-03 | P | Handling of an Application, Which Has Been Refused on the Grounds of No Inventive Step in the Examiner's Decision, However, Which Administrative Judges Decide That It is Appropriate to Refuse on the Grounds of No Novelty | |||
62-04 | P | Handling of the Publication of Unexamined Utility Model Applications Used as Cited Publications | |||
62-06 | P | D | T | Handling of Reasons for Refusal, in Appeal Against Examiner's Decision of Refusal, that Have Been Included in the Decision to Grant, However, Not Become Reasons for Decision |
63-04 | P | Drafting of Decisions When an Examiner’s Decision to Dismiss Amendment is Rendered along with an Appeal Decision in Appeal Against Examiner’s Decision of Refusal |
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69-02 | D | T | Trial Decision Example of a "Trial Against the Examiner's Decision Dismissing an Amendment" Case |
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70-00 | P | U | D | T | Retrial |
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78-00 | P | U | D | T | Examples of Retrial |
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80-00 | P | U | D | T | Revocation Action Against a Trial/Appeal decision |
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80-01 | P | U | D | T | Businesses Associated with an Action That Is Instituted |
83-00.5 | P | U | D | T | Appeal Against Chief Administrative Judge 's Decision to Dismiss |
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83-02.2 | P | U | D | T | Form a Panel to Handle Trial/Appeal Cases That Have Been Remanded by Courts |
[Last Updated 17 August 2023]
Contact |
Trial and Appeal Policy Planning Office, Trial and Appeal Division, Trial and Appeal Department, Japan Patent Office E-mail: PA6B00@jpo.go.jp |