Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2004）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2004 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	Muriel LIGHTBOURNE Research Scholar, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London	Plants and intellectual property rights in the US, Japan, and Europe	summary
Invited	Mary LaFRANCE Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas	A Comparative Study of United States and Japanese Laws on Collaborative Inventions, and the Impact of those Laws on Technology Transfers	summary
Invited	Michael D. KAMINSKI Partner, Co-Manager, Tokyo Office; IP Operations Chair Foley & Lardner LLP Washington, D.C.; Tokyo, Japan	Measurements a Corporate Patent Department Can Use to Report Its Activities	summary
Invited	Jiyoung HAN Doctor of the University of Munich, Germany	Study on Intellectual Property Licensing under Antimonopoly Law in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Korea	summary
Invited	Jae Ho SHIN Doctor of Laws, Lecturer at College of Law, Hanyang University and In-Ha University, Korea	Consideration on the General Principles of Intellectual Property Protection Method	summary
Invited	Wen Jun YAN Judge, People's High Court of Shandong Province	Study on the Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Infringement―Focus on Laws and Practices Comparison China and Japan	summary
Overseas	Ryu KOJIMA Associate Professor at Kyushu University Faculty of Law	Basic Considerations on Forms of Information Transactions -Focusing on Protection and Use of Information Goods in Cyberspace and Related Legal Disciplines-	summary
Overseas	Atsushi MIZUNO Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property	System for Comprehensive Protection of Invention ―Through the comparison between the U.S. CIP application system and the Japanese internal priority system―	summary
Overseas	Masahiko MATSUNAKA Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property	Unitary patent protection systems in Europe	summary
Fellow	Akira ISHII Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	The Effects of the Strength of Intellectual Property Rights Protection on Cooperative R&D between Vertically Related Firms	summary
Fellow	Wataru FUKUMOTO 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	summary
Fellow	Mari NAKAYAMA Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Problems Surrounding Application of Laws Relating to Intellectual Property on the Internet	summary