Japanese Patent System

1st step: Filing a patent application

2nd step: Filing a request for examination

3rd step: Filing Remarks and/or Amendment if receiving a "Notification of Reasons for Refusal"(i.e. Office Action)

4th step: Pay Patent registration fee if receiving a "Decision to grant a patent"(i.e. Allowance)

Language of applications is Japanese. English applications are acceptable if Japanese translation is filed within 2 months from the filing date.

Request For Examination can only be filed within 3 years from the filing date. No extension.

(a) Novelty, (b) Inventive Step, (c) Industrial Applicability, (d) First filing, (e) Without disclosure of the same invention in an other's prior application, (f) Description requirements of Specification

The entry must be done within 30 months of the priority date. No extension. Japanese translation can be filed within 2 months from the entry date.