{"id":48000,"date":"2025-04-28T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/?post_type=legal_developments&#038;p=48000"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:50:05","slug":"patents-the-principle-of-territoriality-two-notable-judgments-of-the-supreme-court-of-japan-rendered-on-march-3-2025","status":"publish","type":"legal_developments","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/thought-leadership\/patents-the-principle-of-territoriality-two-notable-judgments-of-the-supreme-court-of-japan-rendered-on-march-3-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Patents: \u2013 The Principle of Territoriality: Two Notable Judgments of the Supreme Court of Japan rendered on March 3, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>NEW JUDGMENTS \u2013 Principle of Territoriality and Infringement of Japanese Patent Rights regarding \u201cNetwork-Related Inventions\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Supreme Court of Japan rendered two unprecedented judgments on March 3, 2025, addressing the application of the principle of territoriality of patents to cross-border activities. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In short, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in its history that cross-border activities, including the use of servers located outside Japan, can constitute the \u201cimplementation\u201d of a patented invention and therefore an infringement of a Japanese patent right.<\/p>\n<p>In this newsletter, we explain these judgments and provide our summary commentary on them.<\/p>\n<p>View original article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noandt.com\/en\/publications\/publication20250307-1\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Authors]<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"643\"><strong>Kenji Tosaki <\/strong>(Partner)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"643\"><strong>Takahiro Hatori<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"643\"><strong>Nozomi Kato<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-48000","legal_developments","type-legal_developments","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legal_developments\/48000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legal_developments"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/legal_developments"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}