The Intellectual Property Law System for Adequate Legal Protection of Information Technology (IT) in the Network Environment

本项目以知识产权法重构为信息保护法的新观点为基础，探索有效的知识产权法体系，为网络环境下的信息技术提供充分的法律保护。首先，在2002年《专利法》修订的筹备过程中，小野研一研究了计算机程序法律保护的新问题。2002年的《专利法》在世界上首次明确规定了计算机程序是《专利法》的法律保护对象。平岛也在他的文章中讨论了上述问题。特别是，目前正在认真讨论对遗传信息、蛋白质立体结构数据和利用这些信息的筛选方法等先进技术信息的法律保护问题。Obuchi和其他主要学者从法律和科学的角度对问题进行了跨学科的研究。由于信息技术涵盖了金融、商业等人类社会活动的各个领域，在知识产权的客体和实质上，应当协调公共利益的需求、垄断和竞争等。对这些问题的全面研究正在取得进展，如下文所示。此外，上述研究的结果也有利于法学院和法律、政治研究生院的教育。2004年，小渊教授首次在东京大学法学院和法律与政治研究生院共同举办了计算机与网络法律综合研讨会，取得了巨大成功。尤其是信息技术，由于其极易被模仿，如果没有有效、高效的法律保护执行机制，它就无法在经济和社会上生存。小渊发表了一系列关于程序和组织问题的文章，这些问题是实现快速法律保护所必需的。少

This project has been conducted to search the effective intellectual property law system for adequate legal protection of information technology (IT) in the network environment, based on a new point of view that intellectual property law is to be restructured as information protection law.First of all, Obuchi researched newly-arising problems concerning the legal protection of computer programs when he was involved in the preparative process for the 2002 revision of the Patent Law, which articulately provides that a computer program is an object for legal protection under the Patent Law for the first time in the world. Hirashima also dealt with the issues discussed above in his articles.In particular, the legal protection of advanced technology information, such as genetic information, data on the stereostructure of protein and screening methods using them, is currently under serious discussions. Obuchi and other leading scholars conducted interdisciplinary research on the problems fro … More m both legal and scientific points of view. Since IT covers all fields of human social activities such as finance and commerce, with regard to the objects and substance of the intellectual property rights, the demand for public interest, monopoly and competition, etc. should be harmonized. Comprehensive research on these matters has been progressing as shown in the articles bellow.Furthermore, the result of the research mentioned above also gives profit to the education in the faculty of law and graduate schools for law and politics. The comprehensive seminar of computer and cyber law by Obuchi, offered for the first time in both the Faculty of Law and the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo 2004, achieved great success.Especially, IT has the characteristic that it cannot survive economically and socially without the effective as well as efficient enforcement mechanism for the legal protection of IT because it is especially fragile to imitation. Obuchi published a series of articles on the procedural and organizational issues, which are necessary to realize speedy legal protection. Less