「オプジーボ」の特許の分配金をめぐり、2020年6月に京都大学の本庶佑特別教授が小野薬品工業に対して、約262億円の支払いを求める訴訟を大阪地方裁判所に提起しました。報道によれば、その裁判所が、2021年9月に双方に和解を勧告し、具体的な金額を盛り込んだ和解案を提示し、現在も、和解協議が行われているそうです。この紛争の経緯については、以下の過去の記事をご覧ください。日本のノーベル賞受賞者がオプジーボ特許のロイヤルティ率の引き上げのために国民の支持を求める 日本人の国民性のせいか、多くの日本人または日本企業は、紛争解決のために裁判を避ける傾向があります。裁判所も[…]

Finally, Japan’s courts are going to use information technologies for proceedings. Despite widespread use of IT in daily life, we have been required to conduct paper-based procedures and go to court for a brief preparatory proceeding. It would be welcome to improve this situation, but it’s too slow. The reported rough schedule is as follows.  Arrangement of Issues using web conferencing in some courts: Around February 2020 Submission of briefs using cloud services in some courts : Fiscal 2021 Online oral argument: Fiscal 2022 (after revision of Civil Procedure Law) Online filing of lawsuit: Not yet scheduled It has been pointed out that Japan is behind Singapore, China, South Korea […]

Japan’s Tokyo and Osaka district courts will start an intellectual property mediation service in October 2019. The Tokyo district court published the operational guidelines for the new service on August 1.  The purpose of this service is to solve an IP dispute quickly through a discussion between both parties, by advice or opinion from a mediation committee which consists of three members – a judge in the IP division and two experts such IP attorneys. This mediation tries to draw a conclusion in 3 to 6 months (within three times mediation meetings). The mediation committee discloses impression of the case. But also it may suggest the parties to solve the dispute […]