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Asahi Kasei has received the 2025 Imperial Invention Prize from the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, the highest award presented at the 2025 National Commendation for Invention.

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The patent grant rate in Japan increased to 82% in 2021 from 56% in 2009 since the Intellectual Property High Court relaxed the inventive step hurdle in 2009. However, sometimes the inventive step ...

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An invention to keep from splattering your clothes and hair with broth as you slurp your noodles. Also worthwhile if you want your friends to think you are a flower. Chindogu are Japanese ...

TOKYO& NOVI, Mich.& DÜSSELDORF, Germany---- Asahi Kasei has received the 2025 Imperial Invention Prize from the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, the highest award presented at the ...

Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japanese ingenuity remade global culture and may have created modern life as we know it. It's ...