Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2005）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2005 commissioned by the Japan Patent Office. In the column "Invited" is a researcher invited to our institute 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	Cédric MANARA Associate Professor of Law, EDHEC Business School, France	Internet-Related International Trademark Disputes :The State of Law in Western Countries, and the Case of Japan	summary
Invited	Dev GANGJEE Lecturer in Intellectual Property of London School of Economics, Research Associate of Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK	Protecting Geographical Indications as Collective Trademarks: The Prospects and Pitfalls	summary
Invited	Catharina MARACKE Attorney at Law, Sherman & Sterling LLP, Germany	A Delimitation of Design Protection and Copyright	summary
Invited	ZHOU, Junqiang Attorney at Law, Associate Professor of School of Law, Anhui Normal University, China	A Study of Patentability of Computer Software -Related Inventions － Practice in U.S., Europe and Japan and Outlook for China －td>	summary
Invited	JEONG, Jin Keun Doctor of Law, Professor of Hankyong National University, Researcher of Korean Institute of Technology and the Law (KITAL), Korea	Comparative Study on Legal Protection in the USA, EU, Japan and Korea for Computer Programs －Focus on Program Reverse Engineering－	summary
Overseas	Masahiro MOTOYAMA Researcher, Copyright Research and Information Center [Foreign Institute: Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Germany]	Generation and Development of the Structure of Systematic Distinction between Design Law and Copyright Law in Germany	summary
Overseas	Toshihiko ASANO Senior Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property [Foreign Institute: University of Washington, US]	Trends in the U.S. Pro - Patent Policy in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Fields -Focusing on the Hatch-Waxman Act-	summary
Overseas	Taijiro TAKASE Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. [Foreign Institute: University of Washington, US]	Application of the Doctrines Limiting the Doctrine of Equivalents and Claim Drafting Concerning U.S. Patents －Foreseeability and Importance of Claim Limitations in Limiting the Range of Equivalents－	summary
Fellow	Raita IMANISHI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Civil Liability of Patent Owners for Inoperative Inventions	summary
Fellow	Koichiro ONISHI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Do Compensation Systems for Employee Inventions Increase Incentives for Researchers? －Evidence from Japanese panel data－	summary
Fellow	Toshitaka KUDO Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Criteria for the Recognition of Inventors and the Procedure to Settle Disputes about the Recognition of Inventors	summary
Fellow	Yoshikuni SATO Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Database Protection and Competition Policy Consideration on Protection of Databases without Creativity Requirement: A Competition Policy Perspective	summary