Japan Patent Office
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The Japan Patent Office is Japan’s governmental agency responsible for examining and granting patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, and it also serves as an international searching authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japan Patent Office canonical | 9 |
| patent office of Japan | 1 |
| trademark office of Japan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2971986 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japan Patent Office Context triple: [International Searching Authority, exampleOffice, Japan Patent Office]
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A.
Patent Act of Japan
The Patent Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the granting, protection, and enforcement of patent rights for inventions within Japan.
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B.
Patent Court of Korea
The Patent Court of Korea is a specialized appellate court that handles intellectual property and patent-related disputes within South Korea’s judiciary system.
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C.
GCC Patent Office
The GCC Patent Office is a regional intellectual property authority that administers and grants patents on behalf of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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D.
International Preliminary Examining Authority
The International Preliminary Examining Authority is a designated patent office or organization that conducts optional, in-depth examinations of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty to assess their potential patentability before national phase entry.
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E.
Japan Post
Japan Post is Japan’s national postal service operator, providing mail delivery, logistics, and related financial services across the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japan Patent Office Target entity description: The Japan Patent Office is Japan’s governmental agency responsible for examining and granting patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, and it also serves as an international searching authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
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A.
Patent Act of Japan
The Patent Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the granting, protection, and enforcement of patent rights for inventions within Japan.
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B.
Patent Court of Korea
The Patent Court of Korea is a specialized appellate court that handles intellectual property and patent-related disputes within South Korea’s judiciary system.
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C.
GCC Patent Office
The GCC Patent Office is a regional intellectual property authority that administers and grants patents on behalf of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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D.
International Preliminary Examining Authority
The International Preliminary Examining Authority is a designated patent office or organization that conducts optional, in-depth examinations of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty to assess their potential patentability before national phase entry.
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E.
Japan Post
Japan Post is Japan’s national postal service operator, providing mail delivery, logistics, and related financial services across the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
intellectual property office ⓘ |
| abbreviation | JPO ⓘ |
| actsAs |
International Preliminary Examining Authority
ⓘ
International Searching Authority ⓘ |
| classificationSystemUsed |
Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
ⓘ
surface form:
International Patent Classification
Locarno Classification ⓘ Nice Classification ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Patent Office
ⓘ
United States Patent and Trademark Office ⓘ World Intellectual Property Organization ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| establishedInPeriod | Meiji era ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Kasumigaseki
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Japanese ⓘ |
| legalArea |
design law
ⓘ
intellectual property law ⓘ patent law ⓘ trademark law ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| mission |
promotion of industrial property rights
ⓘ
support of innovation in Japan ⓘ |
| nativeName | 特許庁 ⓘ |
| parentAgency | Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ⓘ |
| regionServed | Japan ⓘ |
| responsibility |
administration of intellectual property rights
ⓘ
design examination ⓘ granting design rights ⓘ granting patents ⓘ granting trademarks ⓘ patent examination ⓘ trademark examination ⓘ |
| role |
design office of Japan
ⓘ
Japan Patent Office self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
patent office of Japan
Japan Patent Office self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
trademark office of Japan
|
| service |
IP information dissemination
ⓘ
design application filing ⓘ patent application filing ⓘ patent search services ⓘ trademark application filing ⓘ trademark search services ⓘ |
| supervises | Japan patent attorneys in relation to procedures before the office ⓘ |
| treatyFramework | Patent Cooperation Treaty ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | national patent office ⓘ |
| website | https://www.jpo.go.jp/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Japan Patent Office Description of subject: The Japan Patent Office is Japan’s governmental agency responsible for examining and granting patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, and it also serves as an international searching authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
patent office of Japan
this entity surface form:
trademark office of Japan