Researcher overseas/invited business（FY1999）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 1999 commissioned by the Japan Patent Office. In the column "Invited" is a researcher invited from a foreign country, "Overseas" is a researcher dispatched to a foreign research institute.

Classification	Name/Affirication (at that time)	Research Theme
Invited	Robert H. PITKETHLY University Lecturer in Management Studies University of Oxford	Patent Valuation and Patents Statistics
Invited	Reiko AOKI Senior Lecturer in the Economic Department University of Auckland	Economic Analysis of Public Disclosure of Patent Applications
Invited	Chin-Hsien LEE Professor of Law, Financial & Economic Law Department, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan	Now and Future of Opposition and Trial for Invalidation in Taiwan
Invited	Maria Theresa M. CORTES Attorney at Law, The Republic of the Philippines	A Comparative Study of the Japanese and Philippine Patent and Trademark Systems
Overseas	Ryuta HIRASHIMA Associate Professor of Law, University of Tsukuba	Changes in Subject Matter under the U.S. Patent Law - Focusing on the so-called "business method exception" -