Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2011）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2011 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	Vikrant Narayan Vasudeva Doctoral Scholar, Indian Law Institute, India	Multi-Licensing Model (Open and Closed Source) and Software Protection: Revisiting the Proposed Sui Generis Software Protection Models	summary
Invited	Pessi Juho Antti HONKASALO PhD student, Faculty of Law University of Surrey, UK	Computer-Implemented Inventions as Patentable Subject Matter	summary
Invited	Natthapol CHULLAKESA Presiding Judge, The Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court, Bangkok, Thailand	Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Rendered in Foreign Forum: A Japanese Perspective	summary
Invited	Thomas MARGONI Post-Doctoral Fellow, Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada	The “Novelty” Requirements for Gene and Genetically-Modified Organisms Inventions and the Potential Benefits of a Peer-to-Patent System	summary
Overseas	Takahiro KOJIMA	Extension of the Concept of Confusion under US Trademark Law	summary
Fellow	Risa IDE Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Trademark Act and Consumer Protection with a Focus on a Comparative Study of the Sign Systems in Japan, China, and South Korea	summary
Fellow	Kenta KOSAKA Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	The Impact of Revisions of the Patent System on Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry	summary
Fellow	Takeo MASASHI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Comparative Study on the Basis of the Prior User Right (Focusing on Common Law)	summary
Fellow	Yusuke TANEMURA Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Relationship between the Law Applicable to Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights and the Law Applicable to Torts	summary
Fellow	Miyuki TSUYUKI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Article 103 of the Patent Act and Duty of Care under Liability Law－Review of Provisions on Presumption of Negligence under Industrial Property Right Law－	summary
Fellow	Satoshi TSURUOKA	Industrial Property Rights Policy in Modern Japan: An Analysis of the Political Process Involving Japan, the UK and the USA in Relation to Membership of the Paris Convention	summary