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#title: Patent Inflation in Japan

#descr: Japan, although a world champion in the number of patents, has been
rather passive in the patent inflation movement.  The patent officials
in the government bent their patent law in reaction to pressures from
the US government and the local patent lawyers.  The subject was
hardly discussed anywhere.  Prof. Konno of Tokyo University has tried
to prevent the patent inflation movement by publications and even by
appealing to the highest courts.  In early 2002 his last appeal was
rejected by the supreme court on the grounds that he as an individual
was not entitled to sue the Japanese Patent Office (JPO).

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