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Apr 15, 2015 (Newsletter Issue 6/15)
Japan
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Examination Guidelines Revised


The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has revised the examination guidelines for similar goods and services (corresponding to the Nice classification, 10th edition, version 2015).

The examination guidelines has been reviewed and corrections of erroneous description concerning of some English entries in these guidelines have been made.

The list of changes from the version publicized on February 4, 2015, to the version publicized on April 10, 2015 can be seen here and here

Source: www.jpo.go.jp