Japan taxi app loses payment-patent challenges as court finds QR scanning obvious
By Toko Sekiguchi ( October 28, 2026, 08:03 GMT | Insight) -- GO Inc., one of Japan’s leading taxi app operators, has suffered a setback in a patent dispute with rival S.RIDE after Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court found that claims covering taxi-payment technology lacked inventive step.GO Inc., one of Japan’s leading taxi-app operators, has suffered a setback in a patent dispute with rival S.RIDE after Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court found that claims covering taxi-payment technology lacked inventive step....
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