Patent Act of Japan
E250278
The Patent Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the granting, protection, and enforcement of patent rights for inventions within Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patent Act of Japan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2259082 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patent Act of Japan Context triple: [Intellectual Property High Court, appliesLaw, Patent Act of Japan]
-
A.
Antimonopoly Act of Japan
The Antimonopoly Act of Japan is the country’s core competition law that prohibits monopolistic practices, unfair trade restraints, and anti-competitive mergers to maintain fair and free markets.
-
B.
Administrative Procedure Act of Japan
The Administrative Procedure Act of Japan is a fundamental law that standardizes and ensures fairness, transparency, and due process in administrative actions and decision-making by Japanese government agencies.
-
C.
Court Act of Japan
The Court Act of Japan is a fundamental law that organizes the country’s judicial system, defining the structure, jurisdiction, and administration of its courts.
-
D.
Judicial Scrivener Act of Japan
The Judicial Scrivener Act of Japan is the law that defines and regulates the qualifications, scope of work, and professional responsibilities of judicial scriveners, who handle legal documentation and certain limited legal procedures in Japan.
-
E.
Banking Act of Japan
The Banking Act of Japan is the primary law governing the regulation, supervision, and operation of banks and other deposit-taking institutions in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patent Act of Japan Target entity description: The Patent Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the granting, protection, and enforcement of patent rights for inventions within Japan.
-
A.
Antimonopoly Act of Japan
The Antimonopoly Act of Japan is the country’s core competition law that prohibits monopolistic practices, unfair trade restraints, and anti-competitive mergers to maintain fair and free markets.
-
B.
Administrative Procedure Act of Japan
The Administrative Procedure Act of Japan is a fundamental law that standardizes and ensures fairness, transparency, and due process in administrative actions and decision-making by Japanese government agencies.
-
C.
Court Act of Japan
The Court Act of Japan is a fundamental law that organizes the country’s judicial system, defining the structure, jurisdiction, and administration of its courts.
-
D.
Judicial Scrivener Act of Japan
The Judicial Scrivener Act of Japan is the law that defines and regulates the qualifications, scope of work, and professional responsibilities of judicial scriveners, who handle legal documentation and certain limited legal procedures in Japan.
-
E.
Banking Act of Japan
The Banking Act of Japan is the primary law governing the regulation, supervision, and operation of banks and other deposit-taking institutions in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese law
ⓘ
patent law ⓘ statute ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Japan Patent Office ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
inventions
ⓘ
patent applications filed with the Japan Patent Office ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| defines |
acts constituting patent infringement
ⓘ
industrial applicability requirement ⓘ inventive step requirement ⓘ novelty requirement ⓘ obligations of patent holders ⓘ patent term ⓘ remedies for patent infringement ⓘ requirements for patentability ⓘ rights of patent holders ⓘ scope of patent rights ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Intellectual Property High Court
ⓘ
surface form:
Intellectual Property High Court of Japan
Judiciary of Japan ⓘ
surface form:
Japanese courts
|
| governs |
enforcement of patent rights
ⓘ
granting of patents ⓘ patent rights in Japan ⓘ protection of patents ⓘ |
| harmonizedWith |
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
ⓘ
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ⓘ
surface form:
TRIPS Agreement
|
| includesProvisionOn |
assignment and licensing of patents
ⓘ
damages for infringement ⓘ injunctions against infringers ⓘ joint ownership of patents ⓘ patent application publication ⓘ patent term extension for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals ⓘ presumption of damages in patent infringement ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Japan ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| legalSystem | civil law system of Japan ⓘ |
| providesFor |
appeals against decisions of the Japan Patent Office
ⓘ
compulsory licenses ⓘ employee inventions ⓘ opposition or invalidation procedures ⓘ patent examination procedures ⓘ prior user rights ⓘ |
| purpose | to promote the development of industry through protection and utilization of inventions ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Design Act of Japan
ⓘ
Trademark Act of Japan ⓘ Utility Model Act of Japan ⓘ |
| sector | intellectual property law ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | technical inventions ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Patent Act of Japan Description of subject: The Patent Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the granting, protection, and enforcement of patent rights for inventions within Japan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.