Balancing Open-Close Strategy Options to Foster Innovation Policy in Japan: Navigating the Conflict between Patent Disclosure and Corporate Secrecy

• Project/Area Number: 18K01371
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 05060:Civil law-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Rademacher Christoph 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (30609772)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2021: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: Patent / Trade Secret / Innovation / Disclosure / Open-Close Strategy / Patent Enforcement / Patent Protection / Secrecy / Patent Law / Information Law / Trade Secret Law / Patent law / Patent enforcement / Design law / Open-Close / Patent system / SEP / Trade secret protection / Big Data / Standards / trade secret

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research contributed to a better and more thorough understandings of multiple areas of patent law and the laws of trade secret protection, providing enhanced clarity with respect to the benefits and disadvantages that innovators have when making calibrating their open-close policy. In particular the research focused on certain questions related to the requirements for protection and the tools for enforcement that are of highest relevance when analyzing the benefits of each of the two means of protection.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

Besides publishing multiple papers and disseminating new finding and knowledge through international conferences, the PI also contributed to two government projects conducted by METI, discussing changes to trade secret protection and patent protection in Japan.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] ドイツ特許法における差止請求 (2022)
  • Author(s): ラーデマッハ・クリストフ
  • Journal Title: 日本工業所有権法学会年報 Volume: 45 Pages: 213-226
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 日本における査証制度の比較法的考察 (2022)
  • Author(s): ラーデマ ッハクリストフ
  • Journal Title: 知的財産法学の新たな地平 Volume: 1 Pages: 116-139
• [Journal Article] 専門性、効率性、公平性 ─特許の侵害及び無効判断に関する適切な 分離制度（Bifurcation）の探求 (2022)
  • Author(s): ラーデマ ッハクリストフ
  • Journal Title: 早稲田大学法学会百周年記念論文集 Volume: 4 Pages: 257-284
• [Journal Article] Protecting IP Licenses and Jointly Owned IP in the Age of COVID-19: Insolvency and Force Majeure Events under Japanese Law (2021)
  • Author(s): Kei Matsumoto, Christoph Rademacher, Ayako Suga
  • Journal Title: GRUR International Volume: 70 Issue: 5 Pages: 463-485
  • DOI: 10.1093/grurint/ikab008
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Cultural Impact on Copyright Exceptions: Parody in Germany and Japan (2021)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Journal Title: Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon, Haochen Sun (eds.): The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Volume: 18 Pages: 343-363
  • DOI: 10.1017/9781108671101.023
  • ISBN: 9781108671101, 9781108483049
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] International Jurisdiction and Governing Law (2020)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Journal Title: Christoph Rademacher, Tsukasa Aso(eds.): Japanese Design Law and Practice Volume: 18 Pages: 191-198
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Noteworthy Features of Japanese Design Law from the Perspective of European Law (2020)
  • Author(s): Tsukasa Aso & Christoph Rademacher
  • Journal Title: Christoph Rademacher, Tsukasa Aso(eds.): Japanese Design Law and Practice Volume: 18 Pages: 353-366
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] ドイツと日本における特許権の行使についての比較的考察 (2023)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: 知財高裁研究会
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Reviewing a Sense of Growing International Divergence in Standard Essential Patents Enforcement (2022)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: IPSC
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Enforcement of Standard-Essential Patents in Europe (2022)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: 知的財産と標準化・オンラインシンポジウム「技術・デザインの国際標準化の現在地」
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “From Duesseldorf to Tokyo and beyond?” - Reviewing the reluctant reception of the German Inspection Claim into Japanese Patent Enforcement Procedure (2021)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: ATRIP
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] ニューノーマル時代の働き方に則した内部不正防止/秘密情報保護の指針のあり方とは (2021)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: 日本知財学会第19回年次学術研究発表会
• [Presentation] A Comparative Review of Trade Secret Protection Requirements (2021)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: Trade Secret Protection and the Public Domain
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Big Data Protection in Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: ATRIP
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] SEP Enforcement in China & Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: IPSC
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Standard-Essential Patents: Governance and Anti-trust Policy in Europe, Japan, and the US (2018)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: EPIP
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Harmonization of ‘reasonable efforts’: Trade secret reform in Japan and the EU (2018)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: Trade secrets and innovation; new paradigms/new challenges
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Injunctive Relief in Japanese Patent Law (2018)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher
  • Organizer: INGRES Zurich IP Retreat 2018
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] An International Guide to Patent Case Management for Judges (2023)
  • Author(s): WIPO
  • Total Pages: 643
  • Publisher: WIPO
  • ISBN: 9789280535150
• [Book] Research Handbook on Information Law and Governance (2021)
  • Author(s): Sharon Sandeen, Christoph Rademacher, Ansgar Ohly
  • Total Pages: 352
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar
  • ISBN: 9781788119917
• [Book] Japanese Design Law and Practice (2020)
  • Author(s): Christoph Rademacher & Tsukasa Aso
  • Total Pages: 384
  • Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
  • ISBN: 9789403506418
• [Book] Patent Law Injunctions (2018)
  • Author(s): Rafael Sikorski (ed), Christoph Rademacher
  • Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
  • ISBN: 9789041194572
• [Funded Workshop] Conference on the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (2023)
• [Funded Workshop] 11th Annual WASEDA-PENN GLOBAL PATENT LAW CONFERENCE (2022)
• [Funded Workshop] Waseda Seminar Series on Global IP and Information Law (2021)
• [Funded Workshop] 9th Annual Global Patent Law Conference (2020)
• [Funded Workshop] Waseda Seminar Series on German and Japanese Information and Innovation Law (2020)