Unius IP Seminar: “How to Analyze and Respond to Inventive Step Rejections at the JPO: Insights from a Former JPO Patent Examiner”

During this year’s fall seminar, entitled How to Analyze and Respond to Inventive Step Rejections at the JPO: Insights from a Former JPO Patent Examiner, Unius Patent Attorney Hayato Akao, who before leaving the JPO in March of this year to join the staff of Unius worked for many years as a JPO patent examiner, will explain to the audience how to decode the comments that JPO examiners make in their Office Actions so as to get valuable insight into what the Examiner is thinking and understand what Response strategy is most likely to produce the desired result.

Please note that this seminar will be conducted in Japanese.

The seminar will be followed by a reception. Attendees are welcome to attend the seminar and/or the reception.

Note that the seminar will be held one week apart in Tokyo and Osaka. Please choose whichever location is more convenient.

To register, please send email to seminar@unius-pa.com or fax to 06 6838 0515. Kindly include your name, organization, and whether you will be attending in Tokyo or Osaka.

More information can be found by clicking here (Japanese).

Tokyo Seminar
5 October 2018 (Friday)
Seminar 18:30 – 20:00
Post-seminar reception starts at 20:00
(Attendees are welcome to attend seminar and/or reception)
TKP Tokyo Station Conference Center
Ishizuka Yaesu Building 9th Floor (*)
1-5-20 Yaesu, Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-0028
(*) Approximately 1-minute walk from JR Tokyo Station Yaesu North Exit. Note that Honma Golf is on 1st Floor of building where seminar will be held.

Osaka Seminar
12 October 2018 (Friday)
Seminar 18:30 – 20:00
Post-seminar reception starts at 20:00
(Attendees are welcome to attend seminar and/or reception)
TKP Shinosaka Business Center
First Shinosaka MT Building 4th Floor (**)
5-13-9 Nishinakajima, Yodogawa-ku Osaka 532-0011
(**) Approximately 4-minute walk from JR Shinosaka Station Central Exit. Note that Unius’s Osaka office is on 2nd Floor of building where seminar will be held.

Unius staff member and former JPO examiner Hayato Akao shares insights during the recent Unius seminar