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International Collaboration in FY 2005
 Internet-Related International Trademark Disputes :The State of Law in Western Countries, and the Case of Japan
Cédric Manara   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Associate Professor of Law, EDHEC Business School
 Protecting Geographical Indications as Collective Trademarks: The Prospects and Pitfalls
Dev Gangjee   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Lecturer in Intellectual Property of London School of Economics, Research Associate of Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center
 A Delimitation of Design Protection and Copyright
Catharina Maracke   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Attorney at Law (Sherman & Sterling LLP)
 A Study of Patentability of Computer Software -Related Inventions - Practice in U.S., Europe and Japan and Outlook for China -
Zhou Junqiang    Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Attorney at Law, Associate Professor of School of Law of Anhui Normal University, P.R.C.
 Comparative Study on Legal Protection in the USA, EU, Japan and Korea for Computer Programs -Focus on Program Reverse Engineering-
Jeong Jin Keun   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Doctor of Law, Professor of Hankyong National University, Researcher of Korean Institute of Technology and the Law (KITAL)
 Generation and Development of the Structure of Systematic Distinction between Design Law and Copyright Law in Germany
Masahiro Motoyama   Long-term Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Trends in the U.S. Pro - Patent Policy in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Fields ―Focusing on the Hatch-Waxman Act―
Toshihiko Asano   Short-term Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Application of the Doctrines Limiting the Doctrine of Equivalents and Claim Drafting Concerning U.S. Patents -Foreseeability and Importance of Claim Limitations in Limiting the Range of Equivalents-
Taijiro Takase   Short-term Overseas Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Civil Liability of Patent Owners for Inoperative Inventions
Raita Imanishi   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Do Compensation Systems for Employee Inventions Increase Incentives for Researchers? -Evidence from Japanese panel data-
Koichiro Onishi   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Criteria for the Recognition of Inventors and the Procedure to Settle Disputes about the Recognition of Inventors
Toshitaka Kudo   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Database Protection and Competition Policy Consideration on Protection of Databases without Creativity Requirement: A Competition Policy Perspective
Yoshikuni Sato   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property

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International Collaboration in FY 2004
 Plants and intellectual property rights in the US, Japan, and Europe
Muriel Lightbourne   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Research Scholar, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London
 A Comparative Study of United States and Japanese Laws on Collaborative Inventions, and the Impact of those Laws on Technology Transfers
Mary LaFrance   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
William S. Boyd Professor of Law William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 Measurements a Corporate Patent Department Can Use to Report Its Activities
Michael D. Kaminski   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Partner, Co-Manager, Tokyo Office; IP Operations Chair Foley & Lardner LLP Washington, D.C.; Tokyo, Japan
 Study on Intellectual Property Licensing under Antimonopoly Law in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Korea
Jiyoung Han   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Doctor of the University of Munich, Germany
 Consideration on the General Principles of Intellectual Property Protection Method
Jae Ho Shin   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property Doctor of the University of Munich, Germany
 Study on the Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Infringement―Focus on Laws and Practices Comparison China and Japan
Wen Jun Yan   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Judge, People's High Court of Shandong Province
 Basic Considerations on Forms of Information Transactions -Focusing on Protection and Use of Information Goods in Cyberspace and Related Legal Disciplines-
Ryu Kojima   Long-term Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Associate Professor at Kyushu University Faculty of Law
 System for Comprehensive Protection of Invention-Through the comparison between the U.S. CIP application system and the Japanese internal priority system-
Atsushi Mizuno   Short-term Overseas Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Assistant Manager, Intellectual Property Department, Legal Division, Toppan Printing Co. Ltd.
 Unitary patent protection systems in Europe
Hiroyuki Watanabe   Short-term Overseas Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Senior Coordinator for Licensing Center, Intellectual Property Right Operation Company, Matsushita Electric Industry Co. Ltd.
 The Effects of the Strength of Intellectual Property Rights Protection on Cooperative R&D between Vertically Related Firms
Akira Ishii   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 International Jurisdiction about Intellectual Property Right with Special Reference to "Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes" by the American Law Institute
Wataru Fukumoto   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Problems Surrounding Application of Laws Relating to Intellectual Property on the Internet
Mari Nakayama   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property

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International Collaboration in FY 2003
 Technical Standard-Setting, Patent Pooling, and Competition Policy
Kim Junghoon   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Ph.D., Researcher, Center of Social Informatics, Lecturer,Department Telecommunications Indiana University at Bloomington, USA
 The Pharmaceutical Industry in The Great White North and Land of the Rising Sun: A Comparison of Regulatory Data Protection in Canada and Japan
Vishva V. Ramlall   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
B.A., LL.B., J.D., B.C.L.(Oxon)
 A Comparative Appraisal of Patent Invalidation Processes in Japan
Jay P. Kesan   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Ph.D., J.D., Professor and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
 Block Me Not: Genes as Essential Facilities?
Shamnad Basheer   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
B.A. LL.B.(Hons.), B.C.L.(Oxon.)
 Intellectual Property Legal Education in Japan in the New Millennium : Observations and Lessons from the U.S.
Ilhyung Lee   Invited Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
Associate Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri-Columbia, J.D., Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
 The Nature and Function of Patentability
Shimanami Ryo   Long-term Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Graduate School of Law, Kobe University
 Contemporary Problems on Japanese Patent Law from the Perspective of the European Patent Law Analysis of the Framework on Infringement by Multiple Infringers under the Patent Law-The Case of Indirect Patent Infringement-
Hisao Shiomi   Long-term Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kagawa University
 Court Decisions Related to the Experimental Use Exception under Common Law and under Statute Law (Bolar Provision) in the United States
Kunihisa Masuoka   Short-term Overseas Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Patent attorney, Intellectual Property Department, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
 Decision Standards for Duty of Disclosure
Tatsuya Misawa  Short-term Overseas Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Division, Seiko Epson Corporation
 Intellectual Property as Securitized Assets
Hiroyuki Watanabe   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 History of General Designations No. 15 and 16 and the Basic Principles of the Regulations of Unfair Trade Practices
Naoki Ohkubo   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Current Situation Surrounding Patents on Genes and Proteins - Protection from the Innovational Viewpoint -
Takeyuki Nishi   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property

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International Collaboration in FY 2002
 Stretching the Trademark Protection System
Frank Gotzen   
Director Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIR) Brussels and Leuven, Belgium
 Protection of Shapes as Trademarks
Sigrid Asschenfeldt   
Lawyer, Doctoral Candidate, Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, and the Fern Universitat Hagen
 Selected Aspects of Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Japan and Vietnam -A comparative study with respect to TRIPS standards of enforcement
Viet D. Phan   
Lawyer, TRAN H. N. & ASSOCIATES Doctoral Candidate Technology University of Dresden
 Comparative Study on the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property: From the Viewpoint of the Trial of Intellectual Property Cases between China and Japan
Luo Dongchuan   
Deputy Chief Judge, Third Civil Tribunal, The Supreme People's Court
 Interpretation of Functional Claims in the United States
Takashi Ohno   
Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Desirable Intellectual Property Rights System for Promoting Sound Development of E-Commerce, etc. via the Internet
Takashi Kimura   Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Progressive Development of Protection Framework for Pharmaceutical Invention under the TRIPS Agreement-Focusing on Patent Rights
Akiko Kato   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Intellectual Property Litigation and Foreign Sovereign Immunity: International Law Limit to Jurisdiction over the Infringement of Intellectual Property
Akihiro Matsui   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property

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International Collaboration in FY 2001
 International Developments in Utility Model Protection: A Recommended Approach for Taiwan's Utility Model System Reform
Shieh Ming-Yan   Professor of Law, National Taiwan University
 The Patentability of Software Related Business Methods: Focus On Business Method Patent Under the Trilateral, USA, JP, EU and Countermeasure of China
Zhang Ping   Associate Professor, School of Law, Intellectual Property Society of Chinese University
 Comparative Study on Patent Interpretation
Huan Yi Lin   The George Washington University Law School, S.J.D. Candidate
 Parallel Imports, the Exhaustion of Patents, and TRIPS
Florian Schmidt-Bogatzky   Doctoral Candidate, University of Goettingen
 Criteria for Determination of Utility Requirement for Biotechnological Invention
Tatsuya Izukawa   Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Patentability of Software and Business Method-Related Inventions in Europe
Masashi Ohyama   Senior Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Relationship between the Refusal to Deal in Intellectual Property Right by a Single Firm and the Competition Law
Mio Tanahashi   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Expansion of the Scope of Protection under Law of Business Symbols: Based on US Law concerning Dilution
Masaharu Miyawaki    Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
 Study on Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property - From an Era of Preservation to the Utilization of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge -
Maiko Ozawa   Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property

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International Collaboration in FY 2000
 A Proposal for New Regulation of Abusive Use of Domain Names Chul Song Lee
Chul Song Lee   Professor, Dept. of Law, Hanyang University
 The Internet Distribution and  Use of  Inventive and Creative Works
Howard C. Anawalt   Professor,School of Law Santa Clara University
 A Comparative Study on Parallel Imports of Goods Protected by Patent and Trademarks in Japan and In the EU: Discussed in the Light of Economic Theory
Peter Ganea   Doctor /Researcher,Max-Planck Institute
 A Comparative Study on the Patentability of Biotechnological Invention
Xiao Du Zhang   Doctoral Student,Graduate School of Law Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
 Regulation of Trademark Licensing Through Non-Trademark Law:Jurisprudence of "Corporate Brand Manegement"
Souichirou Kozuka   Associate Professor,Sophia University(Tokyo)
 Criteria for Determination of Nonobviousness of Business Method Patents
Tatsuo Kato   Researcher Institute of Intellectual Property

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International Collaboration in FY 1999
 Patent Valuation and Patents Statistics
Robert H. Pitkethly   University Lecturer in Management Studies,University of Oxford
 Economic Analysis of Public Disclosure of Patent Applications
Reiko Aoki   Senior Lecturer in the Economic Department,University of Auckland
  Now and Future of Opposition and Trial for Invalidation in Taiwan
Chin-Hsien LeeProfessor of Law,Fu Jen Catholic University
  A Comparative Study of the Japanese and Philippine Patent and Trademark Systems
Maria Theresa M. Cortes   Attorney at Law,The Republic of the Philippines
 Changes in Subject Matter under the U.S. Patent Law - Focusing on the so-called "business method exception" -
Ryuta Hirashima   Associate Professor of Law,University of Tsukuba

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