Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2001）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2001 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	SHIEH, Ming-Yan Professor of Law, National Taiwan University	International Developments in Utility Model Protection:A Recommended Approach for Taiwan's Utility Model System Reform
Invited	ZHANG, Ping Associate Professor, School of Law, Intellectual Property Society of Chinese University	The Patentability of Software Related Business Methods:Focus On Business Method Patent Under the Trilateral, USA, JP, EU and Countermeasure of China
Invited	LIN, Huan Yi The George Washington University Law School, S.J.D. Candidate	Comparative Study on Patent Interpretation
Invited	Florian SCHMIDT-BOGATZKY Doctoral Candidate, University of Goettingen	Parallel Imports, the Exhaustion of Patents, and TRIPS
Overseas	Tatsuya IZUKAWA Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property	Criteria for Determination of Utility Requirement for Biotechnological Invention
Overseas	Masashi OHYAMA Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property	Patentability of Software and Business Method-Related Inventions in Europe
Fellow	Mio TANAHASHI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Relationship between the Refusal to Deal in Intellectual Property Right by a Single Firm and the Competition Law
Fellow	Masaharu MIYAWAKI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Expansion of the Scope of Protection under Law of Business Symbols: Based on US Law concerning Dilution
Fellow	Maiko OZAWA 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 -