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Japan IP High Court calls for rare amicus brief on how medical procedures affect patent protection

By Toko Sekiguchi ( August 2, 2024, 08:23 GMT | Insight) -- An intellectual property court in Japan has put out a rare call for public feedback on a patent-dispute case involving a doctor claiming that the medical procedures required to produce and use a drug invalidates the patent. The amicus brief call is only the second time the Intellectual Property Court has asked for public input since its introduction in the IP High Court in the 2021 patent law revision. The court has asked for submissions on whether the patent should be invalidated for being “an invention not industrially applicable” and whether it should be invalidated as the product of two medicines being mixed together.Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court has put out a rare call for public feedback on a patent-dispute case involving a doctor who claimed in a lower court that the medical procedures required to produce and use the drug invalidate the patent....

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