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A branch of the Tokyo High Court, the Intellectual Properties (IP)
High Court is established as of April 1, 2005. The IP High Court is dedicated to
handling cases, both civil and administrative, relating to intellectual
properties. Cases to be handled by the IP High Court are:
(1) Appellate
cases against a decision by a district court relating to rights of patents,
utility models, designs, trademarks or registered circuit layouts, or author's
rights, rights of publication, neighboring rights (i.e., right of performers,
producers of phonograms, broadcast organizations) or rights of breeders, or on
encroachment of other’s business interest under Article 2, Second Paragraph of
the Unfair Competition Prevention Law, wherein the cases require expertise
therein to examine.
(2) Appellate cases against a decision by the JPO’s
trial board as provided in the Patent, Utility Model, Design and Trademark
Laws.
(3) Other cases which require expertise in intellectual properties to
examine principal issues thereof.
(4) Cases oral proceedings in which are
to be combined with those in a case provided in (1) or (2) above or in a legal
case according to (3) above. |
