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Ownership of a patent may be changed by operation of law such as state probate law or Japanese law

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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  • Japan, USA
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  • April 30 2008

In Akazawa v. Link New Technology International, Inc., No. 07-1184 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 31, 2008), the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s grant of SJ to Link New Technology International, Inc. (“Link”) based on lack of standing and remanded

U.S. enforcement of merger rules results in Panasonic - Sanyo merger in Japan

  • Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd
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  • Japan, USA
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  • February 9 2009

In the January 26 update, we noted the increasing international enforcement of anti-trust laws

Japan approves UN Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods

  • Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd
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  • Japan, USA
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  • May 18 2009

Japan's Diet (the federal legislative body) has approved the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("CISG"

Docomo to test super 3G system

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Japan, USA
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  • July 20 2007

NTT DoCoMo confirmed plans this week to conduct a month-long test of a “super 3G” cellular system that the Japanese wireless giant hopes will form the bridge between current third-generation and future fourth-generation (4G) wireless networks

WTO dispute settlement

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, European Union, India, Japan, USA
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  • July 18 2007

34 WTO Members (Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, the EU on behalf of its 27 Member States, India, Japan, and Macou) have filed requests for compensation from the US over its intention to withdraw GATS gaming commitments

Tokyo Financial Exchange receives no-action letter from CFTC

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • Japan, USA
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  • April 27 2007

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight has issued a no-action letter to Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) authorizing TFX members located in the U.S. to install and use TFX’s electronic trading and order matching system (the System

Global interactive data push

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, South Korea, USA
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  • November 9 2007

The SEC announced today that Japan, China, Korea, Canada, Israel, and Australia are all on board with implementing interactive data requirements for financial reporting

Heir’s right to a patent not a question of federal law

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Japan, USA
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  • April 28 2008

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, distinguishing its recent announcement that federal law controls standing determinations in patent cases, held that Japanese intestacy law controlled the issue of whether title to a U.S. patent had transferred to an heir

Council bolsters Antimonopoly Act enforcement measures

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Japan, USA
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  • October 29 2007

The Council for the Antimonopoly Act (Council), a private council of the chief cabinet secretary, has issued a final report of its suggested amendments to the Antimonopoly Act

China’s outbound investment: lessons from the past

  • Squire Sanders
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  • China, Japan, USA
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  • October 13 2009

Our world confronts a crisis in which the economic engines of the United States and Europe that have powered global development in recent decades have shuddered to a halt, and we look with both hope and trepidation to a new power rising in Asia