Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2008）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2008 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	Monica ARMILLOTTA LL.M. in IP, Doctoral Candidate, Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law / Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Germany	Japanese Guidelines on Standardization and Patent Pool Arrangements: Practical and Legal Considerations under the Current Antimonopoly Act - A Global Perspective	summary
Invited	Esther van ZIMMEREN Research Fellow FWO, Center for Intellectual Property Rights, University of Leuven, Belgium	Patent Thickets and Refusals to License in the Life Sciences in Japan - Legal Remedies at the Interface between Patent and Competition Law	summary
Invited	Sangyook CHA Partner, Sang Rock, Law Office, Seoul, Korea	Legal Protection of Design or Applied Art - With the focus on the comparison of the Korean and Japan legal approaches to design law, unfair competition law and copyright law for design -	summary
Invited	Aunya SINGSANGOB Dean, School of Law, Bangkok University, Thailand	A Comparative Study of the United States, Japan, and Thailand Laws on Online Business Method Patents	summary
Fellow	Yasuhiro ARAI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Economic Analysis of Software Patent	summary
Fellow	Hiroaki INO Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Impact of Licensing Schemes on the Private Value of a Patent	summary
Fellow	Manabu IWAMOTO Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	International Jurisdiction and Defends of Invalidity in Foreign Patent Infringement Action - Analysis on Judgment on July 13, 2006 of ECJ (C-4/03) -	summary
Fellow	Isamu YAMAUCHI Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Do Mergers Promote Innovative Activities of Firms? Evidence from Japanese Patent Data	summary
Fellow	Seiji YAMADA Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	The Basic Analysis of Anticompetitive Effect on Patent Pools	summary