Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2002）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2002 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, and "fellow" is a researcher engaged in research at our institute.

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