please find our Newsletter / IP Japan (No. 5 / November, 2012), covering the court decision relating to Partial Design Right, Heisei 23 (Wa) 9476. 
The Court concludes that Accused products A and B infringe the Registered partial design right and Accused product C does not infringe the Registered partial design right..

Attached please find our Newsletter / IP Japan (No. 4 / September, 2012), covering the current situation of Design Registration in Japan according to Annual Report 2012 about IP affairs in 2011 issued by Japan Patent Office (JPO) on August 8, 2012. 
This newsletter covers following topics: 
 1. Statistics on Design Applications in Japan
 2. Statistics on Design Examination
 3. Statistics on Applications Filed by Foreigners
 4. Outcome of Trials for Invalidation

Attached please find our Newsletter / IP Japan (No. 3 / September, 2012), covering the current situation of Utility Model Registration in Japan according to Annual Report 2012 about IP affairs in 2011 issued by Japan Patent Office (JPO) on August 8, 2012. 
This newsletter covers following topics: 
 1. Statistics on applications in Japan
 (1) Changes in the number of applications for utility model registration in Japan
 (2) Changes in the number of preparations for registrability report
 2. Structure of the applications for utility model registration in Japan, China, and Korea

Attached please find our Newsletter / IP Japan (No. 2 / September, 2012), covering the current situation of trademark registration in Japan according to Annual Report 2012 about IP affairs in 2011 issued by Japan Patent Office (JPO) on August 8, 2012. 
This newsletter covers following topics: 
 1) Statistics on Trademark applications in Japan;
 2) Statistics on applications filed by foreigners;
 3) Statistics on prosecution in Japan;
 4) Outcome of oppositions and trials for invalidation;
 5) Outcome of cancellation trials for trademark registration

Attached please find our Newsletter / IP Japan (No. 1 / August, 2012), covering the current situation of patent in Japan according to Annual Report 2012 about IP affairs in 2011 issued by Japan Patent Office (JPO) on August 8, 2012. 
This newsletter covers following topics: 
 1) Statistics on applications in Japan;
 2) Statistics on applications worldwide;
 3) Statistics on prosecution in Japan;
 4) How to accelerate examination? ;
 5) Outcome of trials for patent invalidation and judgment on the decisions of the trials