There are various opinion whether medical technology follow a patent right or not, because to give a patent right to medical technology cause doctors that they must be scared by suffering whether their medical technology come under infringing on the patent or not. This situation block smooth medical supply.

Generally, medical technology itself is not the subject of a patent, however, it is no longer anachronistic to say that because of enterprises making inroads into the field of medical.

After this, it is highly controversial whether medical technology follow a patent right or not.

Moreover, getting a patent right follow the merit that you prevent a rival company from getting the patent right of the same invention.

When we apply a patent right, the invention is open to the public after a given period of time. This system is regardless of getting a patent right. Therefore when you don’t indicate that a rival company get the patent right of the same invention, if you can’t get it, you can restrain it.

Now I’ll pick up where I left off.

Getting a patent right follow the merit that is “preventing repeated developing”.

“Repeated developing” means that you invest the same invention that has a patent right.

We can get “an exclusive right” in return for “releasing invention”.

That is, every one can get the information of the invention which follows an exclusive right.

Therefore, a rival company can avoid studying or investing the invention that we can’t not only get a patent right but also put into effect.

Now I’ll pick up where I left off.

Getting a patent right follow the merit that is “preventing repeated developing”.

“Repeated developing” means that you invest the same invention that has a patent right.

We can get “an exclusive right” in return for “releasing invention”.

That is, every one can get the information of the invention which follows an exclusive right.

Therefore, a rival company can avoid studying or investing the invention that we can’t not only get a patent right but also put into effect.

 Getting a patent right follow a lot of merit. In this time, I’m going to talk about one example of that merit.

 It is getting an exclusive right. An exclusive right is the right that you can appealed to ban invading your right range. This right enable to avoid declining motivation of the enterprise and the scholar that have spent providing large funds and large time in running a business.

 The system of a patent aim at “developing industry” through protection of invention in the first place.

 Judging from this point of view, Giving the exclusive right give an incentive for them to invest and contribute to “developing industry”.

The case that a snapshot had copyright was decided by the intellectual property high court in May 31.

Judging from the purpose of legislation, this judgment was proper, but as mentioned above, it is so difficult for to judge whether an act is came under infringement of copyright or not that ordinary people have a fatuous understanding of the Copyright Law.

It is guessed that the trouble of the copyright law will increase. Therefore the Agency for Cultural Affairs should try to spread knowledge of the Copyright Law for ordinary people in early stages.

It is very difficult for ordinary people to judge whether an act is came under infringement of copyright or not, because the Copyright Law have a lot of exceptional provisions.

The people who are employed in an national organ are not exception too, so I think it is important for us Japanese to improve fatuous understanding of the copyright Law.
In comparison with being a technical, a patent attorney have a lot of chance to come in contact with many invention, I think.

It may be indeed be that I had choices to be a technical expert and invest directly, but, in the case, I think I take part in no more than 5/6 invention.