Historical investigation of Japanese patent system

Since 1879, the Japanese government has studied and established the patent system. In recent years, Japan has revised the Japanese Patent Law for many times, among which the main content of the revision in 1993 is to adopt the system that the application for a patent for utility model is not examined and registered, that is, the substantive examination of the application for utility model is no longer carried out, and the term of the patent for utility model is changed from the previous 10 to 6 years (1994 1 day). 1996 65438+ 10 1, the amendment cancels the announcement system, and changes the previous objection before patent authorization to objection after authorization, thus shortening the time for examination and approval and authorization. The revised law, which came into effect on June 1 996+1October1,made new provisions on patent fees: the previous stamp was cancelled and cash was paid directly.