Unfair competition law

[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

[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade Secrets] Osaka District Court, 2023 (Wa) 12731

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Unfair competition law Topics: Trade secrets First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-12-03 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12948829828.html [Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade Secrets] Osaka District Court, 2023 (Wa) 12731 *Merely signing a confident

[Criminal/Unfair Competition Prevention Act/Trade Secrets] Acquittal: Nagoya District Court, March 18, 2022, 2017 (Kei-Wa) No. 427

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Unfair competition law Topics: Trade secrets First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-30 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12913607755.html [Criminal/Unfair Competition Prevention Act/Trade Secrets] Acquittal: Nagoya District Court, March 18, 2022, 2017 (Kei

[Article] The Scope of “Quality” in Acts Causing Misapprehension of Quality and the Like under the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Masahiko Otsuka, Patent, 2025)

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Unfair competition law, Patents Topics: Working of inventions, Misleading indications of quality First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-06-17 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12911048143.html [Article] The Scope of “Quality” in Acts Causing Misappre

[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/Trade Secrets] Can a Company Enjoin an Employee’s Use or Disclosure of Trade Secrets the Employee Developed or Acquired Personally?

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Unfair competition law Topics: Injunctions, Trade secrets First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-25 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12905722262.html [Article/Trade Secrets] Can a Company Enjoin an Employee's Use or Disclosure of Trade Secrets th

[Article/Unfair Competition Prevention Act] Usefulness and Non-Public Status of Trade Secrets: The Tin Alloy Composition Case (Chen Keyu, 2018)

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Unfair competition law, Patents Topics: Inventive step, Trade secrets First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-16 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12903508011.html [Article/Unfair Competition Prevention Act] Usefulness and Non-Public Status of Trad

[Unfair Competition Prevention Act] 2024 (Ne) 10024 <Hibiku Shimizu>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Unfair competition law Topics: — First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-09 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12901551895.html [Unfair Competition Prevention Act] 2024 (Ne) 10024 <Hibiku Shimizu> Although the product contains nicotine at less than 1 ppm, th

[Article/Trademark] The Possibility of Trademark Parody under Japanese Law: The SHI-SA Case (Takuto Hirasawa, 2009)

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Publication review Category: Trademarks, Unfair competition law Topics: Confusion First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-05-04 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12900086657.html [Article/Trademark] The Possibility of Trademark Parody under Japanese Law: The SHI-SA Case (Takuto H

[Unfair Competition Prevention Act/Trade Secrets] 2017 (Ne) 10007 <Takabe>

日本語原文 / Japanese original Article information Article type: Case note Category: Unfair competition law Topics: Trade secrets First published on this website: 2026-11-01 Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026 Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-04-30 (Japan time). Full English translation. https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12898624499.html [Unfair Competition Prevention Act/Trade Secrets] 2017 (Ne) 10007 <Takabe> ⇒ Although the documents were marked “Conf

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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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