2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

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

Research Project

Project/Area Number	18K01371
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	Rademacher C 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (30609772)
Project Period (FY)	2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Keywords	Patent Law / Information Law
Outline of Annual Research Achievements	The PI completed a number of projects envisioned under the scope of the research project. Projects completed included hosting a webinar series on comparative information law with prominent partners from the US and from China, publishing a book on Information Governance Law (with a leading international publishing company), and completing the text for a comparative patent enforcement treatise to be published by WIPO during this calendar year.
Current Status of Research Progress	Current Status of Research Progress 3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed. Reason Due to the covid-pandemic, the PI could not participate in international conferences and could not schedule in-person interviews with relevant oversea policy makers.
Strategy for Future Research Activity	Will continue to work on questions of setting an appropriate open-close strategy going forward.
Causes of Carryover	Due to Covid pandemic, I could not conduct certain business trips that were envisioned under the original project timeline.

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