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2014 JASRAC Awards winners announced

TOKYO, Japan - Sho Kiryuin, a singer, composer, and songwriter with the band Golden Bomber, poses for photos after receiving the Gold Award at the 32nd annual JASRAC Awards in Tokyo on May 21, 2014, for his song "Memeshikute." The award is given to the copyright holder with the largest share of royalties each year.

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Japan copyright body chief Tokura

TOKYO, Japan - Shunichi Tokura, chairman of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, meets the press at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2013, after submitting a written request to Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to work for the termination of a royalty payment system, under which Japan is required to pay royalties to 15 victor nations of World War II for around 10 years longer than the 50-year copyright protection period. Japan is the only country subject to such treatment due to its wartime failure to pay royalties to its enemies for music, novels and art.

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China's biggest broadcaster accused of not paying royalties to EU

BEIJING, China - European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson speaks at a press conference following his meeting with Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai in Beijing on Nov. 7. Speaking at another press conference following a visit to China's State Intellectual Property Office on Nov. 8, Mandelson said Chinese broadcasters, including the country's flagship network CCTV, have not been paying royalties to European copyright holders.

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China's biggest broadcaster accused of not paying royalties to EU

BEIJING, China - European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson listens to a media question at a press conference following his meeting with Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai in Beijing on Nov. 7. Mandelson told another press conference on Nov. 8 that Chinese broadcasters, including the country's flagship network, have not been paying royalties to European copyright holders.

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Toshiba settles with flash memory inventor over patent

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Masuoka (L) speaks to the press on July 27 after reaching a settlement with Electronics giant Toshiba Corp. at the Tokyo District Court to receive 87 million yen. The engineer, who became a professor at Tohoku University after leaving Toshiba, had sought some 1 billion yen from the royalties made from patents on his flash memory inventions.

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Ono Pharma to pay 28 bil. yen to settle patent suit with Nobel winner

Ono Pharmaceutical Co. said Friday it has agreed to pay 5 billion yen ($44 million) to Japanese Nobel laureate in medicine Tasuku Honjo and donate 23 billion yen to a research fund at his university to settle a lawsuit on cancer drug patent royalties. The settlement, reached at the Osaka District Court, resolves the suit in which Honjo, a distinguished professor at Kyoto University and 2018 Nobel Prize winner, had sought about 26.2 billion yen in patent royalties from the company that sells the cancer treatment drug Opdivo, developed based on discoveries by his research team. "We were able to reach a settlement I feel satisfied with. I would like to support fundamental research with the funds that we will get back from the company," Honjo said through his lawyer. In a news conference Friday, Ono Pharmaceutical President Gyo Sagara also welcomed the settlement, which he said "fully resolved" issues between the company and Honjo.

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Toshiba settles with flash memory inventor over patent

TOKYO, Japan - Fujio Masuoka (L) speaks to the press on July 27 after reaching a settlement with Electronics giant Toshiba Corp. at the Tokyo District Court to receive 87 million yen. The engineer, who became a professor at Tohoku University after leaving Toshiba, had sought some 1 billion yen from the royalties made from patents on his flash memory inventions. (Kyodo)

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China's biggest broadcaster accused of not paying royalties to E

BEIJING, China - European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson speaks at a press conference following his meeting with Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai in Beijing on Nov. 7. Speaking at another press conference following a visit to China's State Intellectual Property Office on Nov. 8, Mandelson said Chinese broadcasters, including the country's flagship network CCTV, have not been paying royalties to European copyright holders. (Kyodo)

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China's biggest broadcaster accused of not paying royalties to E

BEIJING, China - European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson listens to a media question at a press conference following his meeting with Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai in Beijing on Nov. 7. Mandelson told another press conference on Nov. 8 that Chinese broadcasters, including the country's flagship network, have not been paying royalties to European copyright holders. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Honjo failed to declare 2.2 billion yen

Japanese Nobel Prize winner and Kyoto University professor Tasuku Honjo, seen in this photo taken on June 13, 2019, failed to declare 2.2 billion yen ($20.7 million) in patent royalties paid by Ono Pharmaceutical Co. over four years through 2018 for the anti-cancer drug Opdivo developed through his studies, which tax authorities recognized as taxable income, a source familiar with the matter said Sept. 10, 2020. Honjo filed a lawsuit in June 2020 against Ono Pharmaceutical over the royalty contract for the cancer drug, for which he received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2018.

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Ono Pharmaceutical to dispute suit filed by Nobel laureate

File photo taken June 5, 2020, shows the headquarters of Ono Pharmaceutical Co. in Osaka. The company said in a press release issued July 6 that it will "dispute and cope" with a lawsuit filed by Japanese Nobel laureate in medicine Tasuku Honjo the previous month over patent royalties for the cancer treatment drug Opdivo developed based on the discovery of his research team.