Japan

Japan’s IP High Court overturned the JPO’s rejection of a Riken Technos patent for transparent projection screen coatings, holding the patent office failed to explain why a skilled person would have selected the claimed resin from known alternatives.

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court overturned the JPO’s invalidation of a key Broad Institute CRISPR patent, ruling that the institutions could validly claim priority from earlier U.S. filings despite a dispute over ownership of those priority rights.