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[Copyright] Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Wa) 70126 <Nakashima>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Copyright Topics: — First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-12-05 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12949049163.html [Copyright] Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Wa) 70126 <Nakashima> *The explanatory texts and scripts displayed at the Tokutomi Roka Memorial Liter

[IP Practice Online] Joint Reading Festival for “A Sham Selection of One Hundred Copyright Cases” (Subaru Tomori)

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Lectures and videos Category: Copyright, Unfair competition law Topics: Defamation First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-12-14 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12950047923.html [IP Practice Online] Joint Reading Festival for “A Sham Selection of One Hundred Copyright Cases” (S

[Copyright] Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Wa) 70189 <Nakashima>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Copyright Topics: Copyrightability First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-12-09 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12949483043.html [Copyright] Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Wa) 70189 <Nakashima> *Copyrightability of the program denied (no creativity in express

[Article/Copyright] The Public’s Freedom to Use Accessible Works: The Working Vehicles Case — Maiko Murai

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Copyright Topics: Moral rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-23 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12912149070.html [Article/Copyright] The Public's Freedom to Use Accessible Works: The Working Vehicles Case (Maiko Murai, Intellectual Prop

2023 (Ne) 10093, “Copyright Owner of a Cinematographic Work” <Shoji>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Copyright Topics: Moral rights First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-14 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12910465129.html 2023 (Ne) 10093, “Copyright Owner of a Cinematographic Work” <Shoji> *Note that even when the film producer acquires copyright unde

[Copyright] Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Wa) 70080, “Action for Disclosure of Sender Information” <Nakashima>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Copyright Topics: Disclosure of sender information First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-11 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12909727022.html [Copyright] Tokyo District Court, 2024 (Wa) 70080, “Action for Disclosure of Sender Information” <Nakashima> 　T

[Unfair Competition Prevention Act/Communication of False Facts] Osaka District Court, 2022 (Wa) 11394, “Shogi Game-Record Information” <Takemiya>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Copyright, Unfair competition law Topics: Copyrightability First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-13 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12910186575.html [Unfair Competition Prevention Act/Communication of False Facts] Osaka District Court, 2022 (Wa) 11394,

[Article/Copyright] Scope of Protection for Works of Pictorial Expression: The Professor Illustration Case (Emi Tsubata, (2009))

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Copyright Topics: — First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-18 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12904118131.html [Article/Copyright] Scope of Protection for Works of Pictorial Expression: The Professor Illustration Case (Emi Tsubata, Intellectual

[Copyright] IP High Court, 2005 (Ne) 10070 [Vibration Controller Program Case]

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Copyright Topics: — First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-24 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12905536486.html [Copyright] IP High Court, 2005 (Ne) 10070 [Vibration Controller Program Case] *Despite Copyright Act Article 61(2), assignment of the adaptat

[Article/Copyright] The Duty of Care Owed by a Party Commissioning Advertising Materials to Avoid Copyright Infringement (Hajime Moriwaki)

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Copyright Topics: — First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-20 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12904455057.html [Article/Copyright] The Duty of Care Owed by a Party Commissioning Advertising Materials to Avoid Copyright Infringement (Hajime Moriw

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Tokyo District Court, 2013 (Wa) 33070 [Agricultural-Produce Sorting Apparatus] <Hasegawa>

[Article] Supplementing Unfair-Competition Protection Through Civil Code Tort Law (Patent Supplement, 2023; Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno)

[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade Secrets] Tokyo District Court, 2014 (Wa) 1397, the Shoe Last case

[U.S. Patents] November 6, 2023, CAFC <ACTELION v. MYLAN> — Interpretation of Numerical Limitations and Rounding

[Design / Estoppel] Intellectual Property High Court, 2021 (Gyo-Ke) 10067 <Honda>

[Article] The Relationship Between ‘Confusion’ and ‘Business Interests’ Under Article 2(1)(i) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Professor Hisayoshi Yokoyama)

[Article] Judicial Decisions on Infringement Warnings and Notification of False Facts Under the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Patent Supplement, 2023; Professor Toshiya Kaneko)

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