Researcher overseas/invited business（FY2016）

The following is a list of invited researchers, research fellows and dispatched researchers who conducted research in fiscal 2016 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	Jeremy Nathan SHEFF Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, US	The Japan Trademarks Dataset: A First Analysis	summary
Invited	Kelli Lee LARSON PhD Candidate, IP Law, Department of Commercial Law, Hanken School of Economics, Finland	A Comparative Study of US and Japanese Post-Grant Patent Opposition Systems	summary
Invited	LIU, Yinliang Professor of Law, Peking University Law School, China	Exploration of the Patent Prosecution and Patent Litigation System in Japan	summary
Invited	Matteo DRAGONI Ph.D., LL.M. (Stanford) - Research Fellow, University of Pavia, Italy	Comparative Patent Eligibility with a Focus on Software Patents	summary
Invited	Federica BALDAN PhD Candidate, Law Faculty, University of Antwerp, Belgium	Judicial Coherence in Specialized Intellectual Property Courts: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and Europe	summary
Invited	Dhanpat Ram AGARWAL Founder Director, Institute of International Trade, India	International Exhaustion of Patent Rights and Parallel Imports: A Comparative Study between India and Japan	summary
Invited	HU, Jingjing PhD of Law, Peking University Law School, China	Aligning Damages for Patent Infringement with Competition: A Comparison of Japan, Germany, the US and China	summary
Overseas	Kenta NAKAMURA Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University [Foreign Institute: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany]	Trademarks: Economic Measures of Innovation and Effects on Firm Performance	summary
Overseas	Harumi TAKEBE Associate Professor, Faculty of Public Policy, Kyoto Prefectural University [Foreign Institute: Cornell University Law School, US]	Discovery and Protective Order Requiring the Non-Disclosure of Trade Secrets in Patent Infringement Litigation: The Handling of the E-Discovery System	summary
Overseas	Yuri HIRAI Visiting Researcher, Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo [Foreign Institute: Purdue University, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Technology Leadership and Innovation Department, US]	The Empirical Analysis of Meaning Observed in the Patent Documents for Effective Utilization of Patented Technology	summary
Overseas	Atsuko YAMAGUCHI [Foreign Institute: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany]	Study on Unitary Intellectual Property Rights in the EU: From a Viewpoint of Private International Law	summary
Fellow	YUAN, Yuan Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Chinese Firms' Overseas M&A and Innovation Activities: Empirical Analysis Using Patent Data	summary
Fellow	Akitoshi MURAMOTO Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property	Compensation System of Firms Promoting Innovation and Patent System	summary