Patent Practice Manual based on Judicial Precedents:
How to prepare Dispute-Proof Specifications (Fifth Edition)
Author: Yasunobu Yamauchi
Publisher: Morikita Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo

The characteristics of the fifth edition include judgments of the Supreme Court of Japan in the past several years (concerning requirement of support in specification, exhaustion of patent right, partial acceptance of demand for correction, etc.) and reflect a tendency in determination of patentability subjected to a significant change. The number of judicial precedents contained in this book is increased to 298 cases.

This book also describes business practice of how to deal with recent Patent law amendments (amended in 2008 and 2011).

In recent years the intellectual property industry has been subjected to a significant change. This book containing up-to-date information is therefore useful as a guide for intellectual property business from now on.