International jurisdiction in patent matters is affirmed for a suit brought by a Japanese plaintiff against a Korean defendant that operates a website also in Japanese, that offers potentially infringing products on it, lists “Japan” as sales inquiry, and indicates a Japanese address, phone and fax number and enables a customer to select an option of “inquiry to purchase” with the possibility of making a purchase, as either sending a request of offers for sale or receiving such offer occurs in Japan.
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Decision of the Intellectual Property High Court., 15 September 2010. “Offer for Sale”. IIC 44, 99 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-012-0011-4
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