Journal of Information and Media Studies
Online ISSN : 1349-3302
Print ISSN : 1348-5857
ISSN-L : 1348-5857
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Research in the Intellectual Property Law of Software
Around the "Ichitaro & Hanako" Suit
Masato Matsunawa
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2005 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 21-40

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It was the judgment of Intellectual Property High Court in Sep.30.2005 that the demand should be dismissed for the purpose of prohibiting the manufacture and the sale of the word-processing software "Ichitaro" and the graphic software "Hanako". It is about eight months since the judgment of Tokyo District Court in Feb.1.2005. This case has characteristics in the point that it is a quarrel with the invention about the patent concerning the hardware of "The device and the method for treating the information" and the software of "Ichitaro & Hanako". This paper added a consideration about the problems over the intellectual property of software with guessing a focus in this case.
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© 2005 Japan Society for Information and Media Studies
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