Learn in the textbookThe Copyright Act and the Industrial Property Right Laws
DefinitionA business model patent (ビジネスモデル特許) is a patent granted under the Patent Act for a mechanism that carries out a way of doing business with computers or networks.
ExplanationA business idea alone is not an invention, and it can qualify only once it becomes a concrete mechanism that processes things with IT. The name is special, but its basis is the Patent Act itself, and like any patent it is registered after application and examination.
AnalogyA goal like "a shop where customers never wait" earns no right by itself; only once you design a system that automatically links ordering to pickup does it get into the examination ring.
Memory hookThe name says "model," but it ends in "patent." Remember that only one law protects it: the Patent Act.