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18-406: JPO may refer to: Japan Patent Office Javaansche Padvinders Organisatie Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra Johor Premium Outlets Junior Professional Officer See also [ edit ] International Journal of Pediatric Obesity GPS Joint Program Office, now Global Positioning Systems Directorate Topics referred to by

36-711: A diplomatic conference in Paris in 1880, the convention was signed on 20 March 1883 by 11 countries: Belgium, Brazil, France, Guatemala, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, El Salvador, Kingdom of Serbia , Spain and Switzerland. Guatemala, El Salvador and Serbia denounced and reapplied the convention via accession. The Treaty was revised at Brussels , Belgium, on 14 December 1900, at Washington, United States, on 2 June 1911, at The Hague , Netherlands, on 6 November 1925, at London, on 2 June 1934, at Lisbon, Portugal, on 31 October 1958, and at Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 July 1967. It

54-636: A means for catching up to Western governments. The first patent law in Japan was thus established in 1871, though it was abandoned in the next year. Today, the founding date of Japanese patent law and of the Japan's patent office is considered to be April 18, 1885, when the "Patent Monopoly Act" (專賣特許條例 senbai tokkyo jōrei ) was enacted. In 1899, Japan acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property . Takahashi Korekiyo

72-555: A state party to the Convention shall, as regards the protection of industrial property, enjoy in all the other countries of the Union, the advantages that their respective laws grant to nationals. In other words, when an applicant files an application for a patent or a trademark in a foreign country member of the Union, the application receives the same treatment as if it came from a national of this foreign country. Furthermore, if

90-518: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Japan Patent Office The Japan Patent Office ( 特許庁 , Tokkyochō , JPO ) is a Japanese governmental agency in charge of industrial property right affairs, under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry . The Japan Patent Office is located in Kasumigaseki , Chiyoda, Tokyo and

108-575: Is headed by a commissioner and consists of seven departments: The commissioner of the JPO is appointed from among the higher officials of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and generally serves for at most two years. During the Edo period , the Tokugawa shogunate discouraged inventions in order to preserve the stability of the feudal society . In fact, Tokugawa Yoshimune , the eighth shōgun of

126-507: Is one of the world's largest patent offices . The Japan Patent Office's mission is to promote the growth of the Japanese economy and industry by administering the laws relating to patents , utility models , designs , and trademarks . Copyright affairs are administered by the Agency for Cultural Affairs . The current Commissioner of the JPO is Koichi Hamano. The Japan Patent Office

144-966: The JPO moved into its current headquarters in Kasumigaseki. The JPO cooperates with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) as one of the Trilateral Patent Offices . It is also part of the IP5 along with the USPTO, EPO, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). The JPO, SIPO and KIPO are referred to as "Asian Trilateral Offices". Paris Convention for

162-565: The Paris Convention, and is regarded as one of the cornerstones of the Paris Convention. It provides that an applicant from one contracting State shall be able to use its first filing date (in one of the contracting States) as the effective filing date in another contracting State, provided that the applicant, or the applicant's successor in title, files a subsequent application within 6 months (for industrial designs and trademarks ) or 12 months (for patents and utility models ) from

180-631: The Protection of Industrial Property The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property , signed in Paris , France , on 20 March 1883, was one of the first intellectual property treaties . It established a Union for the protection of industrial property . The convention is still in force in 2024. The substantive provisions of the Convention fall into three main categories: national treatment , priority right and common rules. According to Articles 2 and 3 of this treaty, juristic and natural persons who are either national of or domiciled in

198-634: The Tokugawa dynasty, decreed in 1721 the "Ban on Novelty" (新規御法度 shinki gohatto ), which was intended to prohibit everything novel, especially clothing of rich design. In 1868, the Tokugawa shogunate ended and a new reformist government took its place (the Meiji Restoration ). The government studied the Great Powers and adopted a national policy of emulating them in various government areas. Industrial property rights were recognized as

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216-460: The first filing. Article 11(1) of the Paris Convention requires that the Countries of the Union "grant temporary protection to patentable inventions , utility models, industrial designs, and trademarks, in respect of goods exhibited at official or officially recognized international exhibitions held in the territory of any of them". If a patent or trademark registration is applied for during

234-422: The intellectual property right is granted (e.g. if the applicant becomes owners of a patent or of a registered trademark), the owner benefits from the same protections and the same legal remedy against any infringement as if the owner was a national owner of this right. The " Convention priority right ", also called " Paris Convention priority right " or " Union priority right ", was also established by Article 4 of

252-536: The recognition of a right of prior use in favor of the exhibitor as against possible rights acquired by third parties. According to Articles 4bis and 6 (for patents and trademarks respectively), for foreigners, the application for a patent or the registration of a trademark shall be determined by the member state in accordance with their national law and not by the decision of the country of origin or any other countries. Patent applications and trademark registrations are independent among contracting countries. After

270-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title JPO . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JPO&oldid=1084585170 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

288-477: The temporary period of protection, the priority date of the application may be counted "from the date of introduction of the goods into the exhibition" rather than from the date of filing of the application , if the temporary protection referred to in Article 11(1) has been implemented in such a manner in national law. There are, however, other means for the Countries of the Union to implement in their national law

306-585: The temporary protection provided for in Article 11 of the Paris Convention: It is also possible, for example, in the case of exhibited patentable inventions, to make provision for temporary protection by other means, namely, by prescribing that, during a certain period, such exhibition will not destroy the novelty of the invention and that the person who exhibits the invention will also be protected against usurpation of his invention by third parties. Still another possibility of protection consists in

324-638: Was the first commissioner of the JPO. The first patent was granted to Hotta Zuisho (堀田 瑞松), a lacquerware craftsman, on August 14, 1885. The patent granted to him was for an anticorrosive paint containing lacquer , which effectively protected ship bottoms from corrosion . In 1978, Japan acceded to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In 1980, the JPO adopted the International Patent Classification , discarding its own patent classification. In 1989

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