Past research（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 | Theme | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 William S. Boyd 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 Assistant Manager, Intellectual Property Department, Legal Division, Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. |
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 Senior Coordinator for Licensing Center, Intellectual Property Right Operation Company, Matsushita Electric Industry Co. Ltd. |
Unitary patent protection systems in Europe | summary |
| Fellow | Akira Ishii | The Effects of the Strength of Intellectual Property Rights Protection on Cooperative R&D between Vertically Related Firms | summary |
| Fellow | Wataru Fukumoto | 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 | Problems Surrounding Application of Laws Relating to Intellectual Property on the Internet | summary |