Date of
Judgment:
March 28, 1991
Issuing
Authority: Supreme Court
Level of
the Issuing Authority: Final Instance
Type of
Procedure: Judicial(Administrative)
Subject
Matter: Other
Main
text of the judgment (decision):
1. The judgment of the original court
shall be revoked.
2. The Jokoku appeal shall be
dismissed.
3. The jokoku appellant shall cover the cost of
litigation.
Reasons:
We shall examine the present case with
authority. The jokoku appellant requested reassessment of his complaint against
the refusal of his patent application, but the complaint was dismissed. Then,
the appellant brought an action to the court for annulment of the decision
above. However, according to the record, the appellant withdrew this patent
application on Dec 22, 1989, and is subject to lose interests in this action.
This appeal, therefore, should be dismissed, and the original court’s judgment
shall inevitably be revoked.
Thus, in accordance with Article 7 of
the Law on Administrative Litigation and Articles 408, 96, and 89 of the Code
of Administrative Procedure, the justices unanimously ruled as the main text of
judgment.
(This translation is provisional and
subject to revision.)
(The
copyright for this English material was assigned to the Supreme Court of Japan
by Institute of Intellectual Property.)