Patent Practice in Japan and Europe: Liber Amicorum for Guntram Rahn
Preface --Editors' Note --List of Authors --General Questions in Intellectual Property: Of Traditional Values and Modernity: A New Japanese Litigiousness? --General Questions in Intellectual Property: Fifteen Years of the Eurasian Patent System --I. General Questions in Intellectual Property: Positive Attitude of the Japanese Judiciary on Patent Cases --General Questions in Intellectual Property: The Role of Patent Firms in the Economic Development of Japan --General Questions in Intellectual Property: The Reform of Japanese Judicial System to Make an IP-Based Nation --General Questions in Intellectual Property: Japan's History of Intellectual Property Policy and Patent Act --General Questions in Intellectual Property: The Court of Justice of the European Union: The Future European and EU Patents Court: Hierarchy, Complementarity, Rivalry? --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: "Support Requirement" in Japan: A Private Practitioner's View --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: Current State of Disclosure Requirements in Japan: A Judge's View --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: Allowability of Disclaimers --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: Can a Prior Foreign Application not Satisfying the Disclosure Requirement Serve as a Basis for the Convention Priority? --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: Opposition Proceedings at the EPO: Tips for Success --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: Recent Intellectual Property High Court Decisions in Japan on Inventive Step --Patent Prosecution And Patentability Requirements: Keeping the Patent-Eligibility Door Open for New Technologies --Patent Litigation Systems: Copying: Forbidden – Allowed – Desirable – Required? --Patent Litigation Systems: The Interaction between Infringement and Nullity Decisions in German Patent Disputes --Patent Litigation Systems: Patent Litigation in Switzerland – At the Brink of a New Era --Patent Litigation Systems: Notable Differences between Korean and German Patent Infringement and Invalidation Practices --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: Protective Order in Japan / Waves from U.S., towards Taiwan --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: The New German Nullity Procedural Law: A Means to Shorten the Length of the Proceedings? --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: Seizure Proceedings in the Netherlands: A New Weapon? --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation in the UK --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: Rights to Sue for Assignment in Japanese Patent Law --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: Expediency of Amendments during Nullity Appeal Proceedings --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: The Rare German Negative Declaratory Action --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: A Study of International Jurisdiction in Japan, Europe and the United States --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: The Seizure Infringement Procedure under French Patent Law --Patent Litigation: Procedural Law: Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation in Germany --Patent Litigation: Substantive Law: Interpretation and Determination of the Scope of Patents by the French Courts --Patent Litigation: Substantive Law: Patent Infringement by Multiple Parties in Japan --Patent Litigation: Substantive Law: Parallel Imports of Trade Marked Goods in Japan --Patent Litigation: Substantive Law: Equivalent Infringement: A Question of Time?.