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Confirmatory Evaluation on Essential Patent for the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards

For applications for the Essential Patent Evaluation on the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards, there is another type of evaluation system, which is different from the ordinary evaluation system mentioned in the foregoing. Namely, a Confirmatory Evaluation on Essential Patent can be applied for in respect of the patent for which essential patent evaluation has been granted for the Digital Broadcasting Standards (ARIB Standards) under the Center's evaluation proceedings and for which the ARIB Standards used for evaluation are limited to those which are included in the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards (Appendix 1 to the Procedural Rules for Essential Patent Evaluation, "2. Standards for the Technology for Digital Cable Broadcasting")

1. To obtain this confirmatory evaluation, the Applicant is required tol submit an "Application for the Confirmatory Evaluation on Essential Patent" and other required documents and pay the prescribed amount of fee ( 48,000 yen plus consumption tax per application ).

2. Download the predetermined form for Application for Confirmatory Evaluation on Essential Patent from this website for your use to prepare the application. When preparing the application, please be sure to refer to the notes at the end of the form.

Procedures for an application for confirmatory evaluation on essential patent are to be conducted electronically and, therefore, every document and material relating to the application is to be prepared and submitted in electronic form. As for the method by which the application is to be submitted electronically, please be sure to contact the Center's Secretariat, beforehand each time an application is to be submitted, for the information and explanation as to the method for submission of the application to a predetermined folder, which is to be set for your particular application and onto which the application is to be uploaded. What are required to be sent to the Center in electronic medium are one complete set of the written Application Form and its attachments of referential materials in PDF format and the written Application Form (without its attachments) in Word format.

3. For any questions about the procedures for applying for a Confirmatory Evaluation, contact the following :

Contact The Secretariat, the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center
Address c/o the Japan Patent Attorneys Association Building (Benrishi Kaikan), 3-4-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, JAPAN
Telephone +81-3-3500-3793
Facsimile +81-3-3500-3839
E-mail

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