2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Balancing Open-Close Strategy Options to Foster Innovation Policy in Japan: Navigating the Conflict between Patent Disclosure and Corporate Secrecy
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18K01371
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 05060:Civil law-related
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Patent / Trade Secret / Innovation / Disclosure |
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| 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.
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| Free Research Field |
Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law
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| 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.
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