Notes - Intellectual Property right

Infringement of patent right is (the common thoughts)

What is the case of infringement of patent rights?

If the situation fulfilled with all the specific matters described in the claims, it is a infringement of patent rights.
(Example) “A horizontal pressure vessel with a mixer, in which the raw material is input from the upper part and discharged from the lower part, the equipment has a conical shape and a drying mechanism built in the lower part of the equipment.” in the patent.
If the words above descript a patent, then the patent has 7 specific items “a. with a mixer b. is horizontal c. pressure vessel d. inputs raw material from the upper part e. discharges from the lower part f. is conical in shape g. as an internal drying mechanism”. Infringement of the patent rights must conform to all these seven items.
The equipment that is "a horizontal pressure vessel with a mixer that inputs the material from the upper part and discharges it from the lower part" but that "is not conical in shape and does not contain a drying mechanism" does not infringe this patent.

To customers considering introduction of company’s hydrothermal processing

Please be assured.
We conduct investigations and confirmations by patent attorneys and lawyers so as not to infringe the patent rights of third parties.
If you have any concerns, please feel free to contact us from "Contact us".

Since February 1, 2018, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Daiki Axis Co., Ltd., a company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
We will continue to enforce compliance more than ever.

Previous case of trial “Toyokawa biomass park”

There was an incident in which Mr. Miyashiro Satonao invaded the media that his patent rights were infringed on our company equipment used in “Strategic Funds for the Promotion of Science and Technology in 2011 Social System Reform Program for the Creation of a New Society Responding to Climate Change – Construction of effective utilization of biomass, CO2 and heat” implemented mainly by Toyohashi University of Technology.
At the end of the trial
・Both parties confirmed that the equipment and method of treatment did not infringe Miyashiro's patent rights.
・Miyashiro promised not to spread the same falsehoods about the equipment and hydrothermal processing methods again.
・Miyashiro would pay the settlement to us
Ended with this way.

Click here to check the settlement documents(Japanese)

At the same time, we asked the Patent Office to make a determination as to whether the equipment in question infringes Mr.Miyashiro's patents No. 3089543 and No.4864884. As a result of the judgment, both patents were judged as "not infringe". Please refer to the following for the judgment results by the three JPO judges.

Result of patent No.3089543(Japanese)

Result of patent No.4864884(Japanese)

※The name of the company in the settlement documents and trail decisions is the former name of Fujimura INVENT Co., Ltd.