Legal protection of intellectual property, mainly copyright.

在3年的研究期间，我们召开了14次研究会议。会议讨论了“机床图纸在著作权法中的位置”、“美国商业秘密的刑事保护”、“计算机动画的作者及其著作权的限制”、“商业秘密的保护与雇员的保密义务”、“平行进口与专利侵权”等问题。与此同时，首席调查员制作了多媒体的法律教育作品，通过WWW发送信息，并收集法律问题，以讨论多媒体时代的知识产权。我们的研究结果已经以两种方式发表：WWW （http: //civilpro.law.kansai-u.ac.jp/kurita/）以及期刊和一本书。在WWW上发表了有关互联网与版权的文章，并正在构建对日本版权法的评论。本报告第11栏所列的文章发表在期刊上。最后我们出版了《知识产权法律保护》一书作为我们的主要研究成果。本书包括以下几篇文章：《论专利作为所有权的基本性质——垄断性还是排他性？——”、“平行进口与专利侵权”、“论计算机病毒的处罚”、“保护商业秘密与董事和雇员的保密义务”、“著作权所有权转让与非独占许可的优先权”、“著作权所有权的执行买卖”、“著作权法视角下的万维网”。通过这些文章，我们已经完成了计划中的大部分项目，尽管不是全部。我们将在一年内完成其余的项目。

We have held 14 research meetings in 3 years research period. In the meetings the following topics were discussed : "the placement of blueprint of a machine tool in the copyright law", "criminal protection of trade secret in USA", "The author of computer animation and limits of his copyright", "Protecting trade secrets and obligation of confidence of employees", "Parallel import and patent infringement", and so on. In parallel with this, Head Investigator created multimedia works for legal education, send information through WWW and picked up legal problems in order to discuss intellectual property in multimedia ages.Our research results have been published in two ways : on WWW (http : //civilpro.law.kansai-u.ac.jp/kurita/) as well as in journals and a book. On WWW articles about internet and copyright were published and a commentary on Japanese copyright act is being constructed. The articles shown in column 11 of this report were published on journals. Finally we published a book : legal protection of intellectual property as our main research results. This book consists of following articles : "On Basic Nature of Patent as Proprietary Right-Monopolistic or Exclusive? --", "Parallel Import and Patent Infringement", "On the Punishment of Computer Virus", "Protecting Trade Secrets and Obligation of Confidence of Directors and Employees", "Priority between Transfer of Copyright Ownership and Nonexclusive License", "Execution Sale of Copyright Ownership", "World Wide Web viewed from the Point of Copyright Law". With these articles we have achieved most of the projects planed, even though not all. We are going to achieve the rest of projects in one year.