2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Patent System: Law Objectives and Pluralistic Values Underlying Public Policy
| Project/Area Number |
22330040
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
New fields of law
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAYAMA Nobuhiro 明治大学, 知的財産戦略機構, 特任教授 (40009816)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 知的財産 / 特許 / 環境 / 公衆衛生 / 生命倫理 / 公共政策 |
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| Research Abstract |
Patent law pursues the “development” as its objective. In recent years, however, we have seen many multilateral disputes in which various values?environmental protection, public health, bioethics and so forth?public policy seeks to achieve have come into conflict with patent law objectives. Our research project was structured in two phases. In Phase I, we collected and analyzed information for each topic. Keeping in mind synthesizing our findings in Phase I, we held an international symposium on patents and bioethics/medicine and a policy discussion on patent-related issues of environment and development in Phase II. We made it clear that those problems should be comprehensively treated as an issue related to patents and non-economic values,and that policy making process should be made open, flexible and horizontal.
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