Past research（FY2001）
The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2001 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.
| Classification | Name／Affirication | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Invited | Shieh Ming-Yan Professor of Law, National Taiwan University |
International Developments in Utility Model Protection:A Recommended Approach for Taiwan's Utility Model System Reform |
| Invited | Zhang Ping Associate Professor, School of Law, Intellectual Property Society of Chinese University | The Patentability of Software Related Business Methods:Focus On Business Method Patent Under the Trilateral, USA, JP, EU and Countermeasure of China |
| Invited | Huan Yi Lin The George Washington University Law School, S.J.D. Candidate |
Comparative Study on Patent Interpretation |
| Invited | Florian Schmidt-Bogatzky Doctoral Candidate, University of Goettingen |
Parallel Imports, the Exhaustion of Patents, and TRIPS |
| Overseas | Tatsuya Izukawa | Criteria for Determination of Utility Requirement for Biotechnological Invention |
| Overseas | Masashi Ohyama Doctoral Candidate, University of Goettingen |
Patentability of Software and Business Method-Related Inventions in Europe |
| Fellow | Mio Tanahashi | Relationship between the Refusal to Deal in Intellectual Property Right by a Single Firm and the Competition Law |
| Fellow | Masaharu Miyawaki | Expansion of the Scope of Protection under Law of Business Symbols: Based on US Law concerning Dilution |
| Fellow | Maiko Ozawa | Study on Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property - From an Era of Preservation to the Utilization of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge - |