Article 72Procedures for Seizure of Patent Rights, etc. and Time of Taking Effect
第七十二条（特許権等の差押えの手続及び効力発生時期）
Changes on (Act No. 12 of 2026)
Of the property not subject to the provisions of the preceding three Subsections (hereinafter referred to as "incorporeal property, etc."), the seizure of patent rights, copyrights and other property for which there is no third-party debtor, etc. is effected by serving a seizure document on the delinquent taxpayer.
The effect of the seizure under the preceding paragraph arises at the time the seizure document is served on the delinquent taxpayer.
When the district director has seized incorporeal property, etc. for which registration is required for the transfer of the right, the district director must commission the relevant authority to register the seizure.
税務署長は、無体財産権等でその権利の移転につき登記を要するものを差し押さえたときは、差押えの登記を関係機関に嘱託しなければならない。
If the registration of the seizure under the preceding paragraph is made before the service of the seizure document, the effect of the seizure arises at the time the registration of the seizure is made, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2).
The effect of the seizure of a patent right, utility model right or other right for which a restriction on its disposition does not take effect unless it is registered arises at the time the registration of the seizure is made, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) and the preceding paragraph.
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delinquent taxpayermachine translation
「滞納者」
A taxpayer (納税者) who has not paid a national tax they owe by its due date for payment, the original due date being the one that counts: a later date to which a tax payment grace period (納税の猶予) or a grace period for collection or for the delinquent tax collection procedure (滞納処分) has extended it does not.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
third-party debtor, etc.machine translation
「第三債務者等」
A third-party debtor (第三債務者) or a person in a like position, for property to which Article 62 or 73 applies, other than property whose rights need registration to be transferred.
Short name set inArticle 24, paragraph (5), item (ii)
incorporeal property, etc.machine translation
「無体財産権等」
As defined in Article 72, paragraph 1 of the National Tax Collection Act, property to which the three preceding subsections (款) of that Act on seizure do not apply, such as patent rights and copyrights.
Short name set inArticle 72, paragraph (1)
district director
税務署長
The head of a tax office (税務署), the local office of the National Tax Agency that deals with taxpayers in its district (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Article 24). It is the office a person usually deals with: an income tax return is filed with a district director (Income Tax Act, Article 120, paragraph (1)), and reassessments, determinations and the collection of national tax are done by the district director for the taxpayer's current place for tax payment (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Articles 30 and 43). A person who objects to what a district director has decided can ask that director to look at it again (再調査の請求) or go straight to the National Tax Tribunal (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (i)) — unless the notice of the decision says officials of a Regional Taxation Bureau or of the National Tax Agency investigated, in which case it counts as the regional commissioner's decision, with the same choice, or as the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency's, which can only be challenged by a request for review to the Commissioner (Article 75, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Art. 24, Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 30, 43, 75 and Income Tax Act, Art. 120 as a reference.
registration
登記
Entry in a public register kept by a registry office (登記所) — a Legal Affairs Bureau or one of its branch offices — so that the matter is made public (Real Property Registration Act, Articles 1 and 6, paragraph (1)). Rights in land and buildings, such as ownership, a superficies (地上権), a statutory lien (先取特権), a mortgage and a right of lease (賃借権), can be registered under that Act (Article 3), and matters the Commercial Code, the Companies Act and other Acts require to be registered are registered under the Commercial Registration Act (Article 1). Registration also lets a right be asserted against third parties: acquiring, losing or changing a right in rem (物権) in land or a building, such as ownership, cannot be asserted against third parties until it is registered (Civil Code, Article 177), and a matter the Companies Act requires to be registered cannot be asserted against a third party who does not know of it until it has been registered, nor, even after that, against one who had a justifiable reason for not knowing of the registration (Companies Act, Article 908, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Real Property Registration Act, Arts. 1, 3, 6, Commercial Registration Act, Art. 1, Civil Code, Art. 177 and Companies Act, Art. 908 as a reference.