Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2015）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2015 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	Kevin Emerson COLLINS Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, US	Drawing Lines: The Boundary of Patentability in Personalized-Medicine Diagnostics	summary
Invited	LI, Yang Professor of Law, Shenzhen University Law School, China	FRAND Holdup and Its Solution	summary
Invited	Henri de BELSUNCE Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany	A New Proxy for Strategic Patents and Its Application to Japanese and US Patent Data	summary
Invited	Martin HUSOVEC Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany	Trade Mark Use Doctrine in the European Union and Japan	summary
Invited	V.C. VIVEKANANDAN MHRD IP Chair Professor, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India	Compulsory Licensing of Patents- A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Indian Practices	summary
Invited	CHOU, Chih-Hao Patent Examiner, Taiwan Intellectual Property Office	Comparative Analysis of Inventive Step/ Nonobviousness Standard and Case Study Thereof – from the Aspect of “the Problem to Be Solved”	summary
Invited	YOO, Ji-Hye Jihye, Researcher/Lecturer, Kangwon National University, Korea	A Study on the Status of Software Patent Protection in Japan – Comparison with Status in Korea	summary
Overseas	Kenta NAKAMURA Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University [Foreign Institute: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany]	Early Clarification of Patent Rights and Innovation: An Empirical Study of Information Provisions and Post-Grant Oppositions	summary
Overseas	Yuzuki NAGAKOSHI Post-doctoral Researcher, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo [Foreign Institute: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany]	The Enhancement of International Patent Technology Transfer in Relation to National Law, International Law and Related Policies - Examples from the Current Practice in the Fields of Telecommunication, Biology and Environment	summary
Overseas	Atsuko YAMAGUCHI [Foreign Institute: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany]	Study on the Unitary Patent Protection in the EU from a Viewpoint of Private International Law	summary
Fellow	Yuan YUAN Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Ownership Structure and Intellectual Property Strategy: Patent Analysis in China	summary
Fellow	Akitoshi MURAMOTO Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Economic Analysis on Employee Invention System from the Viewpoint of R&D Incentive and Welfare Loss Arising from Lawsuit against for Remuneration for Invention	summary