Researcher overseas/invited business（FY1997）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 1997 commissioned by the Patent Office. In the column "Invited" is a researcher invited from a foreign country to our institute.

Classification	Name/Affiliation (at that time)	Research Theme
Invited	YUN, Sunhee Doctor of Law and Professor, the Law Department, Sangji University, Korea	Comparative Study on Industrial Property Systems in South Korea and Japan - Centerd on Settlement of Patent Litigations -
Invited	Jumpon PHANSUMRIT Seniro State Attorney General, Thailand	The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Comparative Study of Criminal Sanctions in Thailand and Japan
Invited	Karl H. RUPING Adjunct Professor, Temple University Japan	Patent Protection of Computer Software in Japan and the United States
Invited	F. Willem GROSHEIDE Professor, the Molengraaff Institute/Center for Intellectual Property Law, Utrecht University, Netherlands	Database Protection on the Borderline of Copyright Law and Industrial Property Law - A Status Report with regard to the Law of the EU, the USA and Japan -
Invited	Robert G. Howell Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada	Intellectual Property Issue and the Information Highway or Internet in Japan and Canada: Extraterritorial Enforcement or Jurisdiction