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September 1	Law of Software Patent
August 18	It Is No Use Crying Over "Passed Time"
July 29	Unchangeable Facts
July 22	Invention In Red Zone
June 30	Removal Is Essential
June 20	Here Comes The First Container Registered As 3D Trademark
May 29	Clear Classification
May 20	Basic Fact
April 30	Unmovable Decision
April 21	Length Sometimes Doesn't Matter
March 31	Rescued Three Words Rescued A Patent
March 17	Time Cannot Be Extended In One's Own Favor
February 29	Disapproved Replacement
February 18	Rudeness Is Not A Beauty
January 31	Strike The Design While It Is Hot
January 18	Incomplete Punch


December 27	Everybody Shares The Fruit
December 17	It Was Not A Paper-Thin Difference
November 30	Base Is Essential
November 19	Final Judgment
October 31	Pain Added To Company
October 22	A Bright Guiding Light For A Three Dimensional Trademark
September 28	MODE Back To Starting Point
September 18	Root Of Noodle
August 30	Line Between Patented And Unpatented
August 20	Get Clutch Hit In Japan
August 2	Ceaseless Quest For Easiness
July 17	The Original Was Controlled
June 29	Original Company Dug Its Nails
June 18	It Is Hard To Capture A Famous Rabbit
May 30	Blurred Schemes
May 21	Don't Relax On Chair Patent
April 9	Within Known Range and Out of Supported Range
March 30	Original Arrangement Builds A Fortune
March 19	It Was an Air Shot
February 27	A Need for Another Source
February 15	Pile Up Confirmations By Millimeters
January 29	No "Anne" For Games
January 15	Difficult Calculation


December 29	Transferred Before Use
December 14	Birds Chirp Across the Nation
November 27	Too Early Injection
November 14	BRAND AWARENESS COMES AT A PRICE
October 30	Recycle The Patent First
October 20	Comparison Was Stored in Memory
September 27	"ROMAN HOLIDAY" Is Now Discounted
September 12	Clothes Were Kicked Off
August 28	Poignant Lack of Thousandth
August 15	Gourd Sounds As Well As Trumpet
July 31	Effects Based On Uncertainty
July 18	Bake Pizza First
June 27	Rough Roughness
June 14	Significance Of Colors
May 30	Wrench Tightened Schedule
May 16	Future Familiarity of Flavan
April 27	BLACK, BLACK, BLACK…
April 12	Reliability Of Joints
March 29	Amendment Out Of Definition
March 20	Far From New Medicine
February 27	Hazy Particle
February 13	Later Life Of An Ink Tank
January 12	Protect Freedom


December 26	Correspondence Is Important
December 14	Date Is Essentially Essential
November 29	Chew Over A Gum To Chew
November 11	Unstable Life Of An Ink Tank
October 27	It Did Not Perform AS AN Effective Camouflage
October 11	You Cannot Hold It
September 27	A Change Changed the Result
September 12	Eyes Catch the Whole View
August 24	Not Easy to Make Employee and Hair Stay
August 8	Words Do Not Go Beyond Common Sense - Yamada Denki vs Kojima -
July 27	Horse Name Prancing In Game
June 1	Nakamura v. Nichia Corporation


September 14	CAFC finally publishes their decision in Knorr-Bremse


August 14	You Pressed Them Too Much
July 29	No Free Ride with Diet Food
July 14	Massage Chair Increased Tension (Part II)
July 1	Massage Chair Increased Tension
June 13	An Abuse of Patent
June 2	6,978 Cases of Importation Were Restrained
May 13	Japanese Law Does Not Contribute To US Law
April 29	Who Got a Free Pass in Patent Infringement?
April 15	It's NOT Parallel
April 2	An Unfair Use of "Peter Rabbit" Trademark
March 21	Don't Help People To Swap MP3 Files
March 12	Furby Dolls Are Not Aesthetic
February 28	A World Famous Box of Chocolate Was Denied By Japan
February 12	Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center Ruled Against Domain Names That Are Similar to World Famous Trademarks, "ROLEX", "Dior" and "Pharmacia"
January 31	「著作権の存続期間延長は合憲」連邦最高裁判所判決下す