Prof. Ueno published an article on the copyright issues in Metaverse with Prof. Dinusha Mendis in IIC.
Makoto Hattori shares his insights from this year’s International Symposium on Intellectual Property Courts (JSIP) has been held annually, co-hosted by the Supreme Court of Japan, the Ministry of Justice, the Japan Patent Office, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and the Intellectual Property Lawyers Network.
ASEAN’s new ASPEC+ framework marks a cautious but meaningful shift from passive patent work-sharing toward active coordination among national IP offices. While far from a unified regional patent system, it may become an important test of whether procedural cooperation can gradually produce deeper convergence in ASEAN patent examination.