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[FYI] JP: Operational Guidelines on Treatment of Internet Data as Prior Art



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Operational Guidelines on Treatment of Internet Data as Prior Art  

                                                                   
December 10, 1999
                                                            
Examination Standards Office
                                                                  
Coordination Division

Section 29(1) of the Japanese Patent Law (JPL)  

Any person who has made an invention which is industrially applicable 
may obtain a patent therefor, except in the case of the following 
inventions:  

<omitted>  

(iii) inventions which have been described in a publication 
distributed in Japan or elsewhere or inventions which became 
available to the general public through telecommunication lines in 
such places prior to the filing of the patent application  

[...]

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