On April 1, 2021, the JPO began a trial Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) with the Moroccan Office of Industrial and Commercial Property (OMPIC).
As a result, applications that have been determined to be patentable in Japan can now be subjected to accelerated examination in Morocco through a simplified procedure upon application by the applicant.
On March 5, 2021, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) disclosed the status of injunctions against counterfeit brand-name goods and other intellectual property infringing goods at customs nationwide for fiscal year 2020.
The number of import injunctions increased 26.6% over the previous year to 30,305, the first time in three years that the number exceeded 30,000.
On March 2, 2021, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced that the Cabinet had approved the "Draft Law for Partial Revision of the Patent Law, etc.".
It will be submitted to the current Diet session and will be enforced by the end of FY2021.
On March 16, 2021, the JPO added an explanation of the PPH portal site to the JPO Quick Reads.
The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has announced that the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) with the Brazilian Industrial Property Office (INPI) will allow one application per week starting January 1, 2021.
Until now, the number of applications has been limited to one per month per applicant.
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