Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 45, Issue 11
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Lecture
  • Industrial competition and intellectual property
    Giichi MARUSHIMA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2003 Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 745-752
    Published: 2003
    Released on J-STAGE: February 01, 2003
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.745
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    Intellectual property and patents have been attended over the world in the recent years, and have been drastically changing. Looking at Japan where economic recession has been long spreaded over the nation, they are considered to be keys for her economy recovery as seen in that the Japanese Government formulated the national strategy titled a nation based on her intellectual properties. Actually Japan's industrial competition used to conquer the world, but it is now going downward. On the other hand the US has executed pro-patent policy since the 1980’s resulting that her industrial competition not only has recovered but also has been enhanced. She incorporated some treatments favoring the taxation, Bayh-Dole Act, vitalization of venture firms, a unified decision by CAFC for patent suits. Aiming at Japanese-version pro-patent policy Japan has incorporated the followings in the Intellectual Property Strategy General Outline by the Government: consolidation of the environment where ones are able to obtain returns to R&D investment they have done including strong patent right assigned, enlarged coverage of the right; significance in originality and creativity for R&D; role of academic communities for creative research activities, unified decision of patent suits, so on. He also describes importance of industry-academia cooperation, and importance of intellectual property strategy in universities/colleges. Strategies which firms should take and what personnel of intellectual property departments inside firms should do are also mentioned.
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Commentary article
  • Ownership and compensation of the research results Part 1
    —Consideration for employee’s invention—
    Hirokazu AOYAMA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2003 Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 753-763
    Published: 2003
    Released on J-STAGE: February 01, 2003
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.753
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    According to the patent law system under which persons involved in research and development are awarded incentives for their work, the patent right basically belongs to the inventor, and in the case of employee’s inventions exceptionally the employers are granted the right of reserved succession. In that case, however, the employers are required to pay a substantial consideration. Lately, there has been a succession of legal proceedings against the companies where the inventor or inventors once worked demanding the payment of a high consideration for the employee’s invention. As the judgement of the Hitachi employee’s invention case rendered on November 29 of the last year, the Tokyo Regional Court ordered the defendant to pay about 35 million Japanese yens - the highest monetary amount ever recorded as the consideration for an employee’s invention to the inventor (former employee). Research results and written works that cannot be patented are treated separately. This series (Part 1 and Part 2) deals with the present situation and problems regarding the attribution of the results of creative activities such as research and development and the system of compensation for researchers. This article deals with the problem of compensation in the latest employee’s invention cases.
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  • Federal Circuit
    —Days of glory and depression—
    Jinzo FUJINO
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2003 Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 764-769
    Published: 2003
    Released on J-STAGE: February 01, 2003
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.764
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    In late 1990s, the interpretation of patent laws features a somewhat different aspect. In the earlier time, the Supreme Court assigned the role of a final decision maker on patent laws to the Federal Circuit almost exclusively. However, in its recent decisions, the Court has sent the clear message that the court will review patent cases positively whenever necessary. Since its establishment in 1982, the Federal Circuit has played an important role as a driving force of the policy in favor of patentees. Consequently, the Federal Circuit has attained position as a de fact IP Supreme Court. However, from now on, the Federal Circuit will have to feel more involvement in and review of its decisions by the Supreme Court. Eventually, the Federal Circuit will be forced to play the role of an intermediate appeal court with an expertise in patent laws.
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  • Trends in pay-per-view of electronic journals
    Eiji HARADA, Reiko WATANABE, Noriko KOJIMA, Mitsuru MIZUNO
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2003 Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 770-780
    Published: 2003
    Released on J-STAGE: February 01, 2003
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.770
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    Electronic journal publication, speeded up by the advance of the Internet age, became common in the world of the academic journals. Among the various advantages of electronic journals against journal publication in traditional print style, there is a large point that the binding of issues has nearly vanished that we can now easily handle journals by each article. Accordingly, sales by single articles, called such as pay-per-view, have appeared. Services by pay-per-view are also becoming available at sites other than publishers. We have assorted those pay-per-view services into three groups by supplier, i.e. publishers, aggregators and secondary database services, and illustrated out the characteristics of their services. Furthermore, brief analysis on cost performance is given.
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  • Introduction and use of charged or free of charge patent information on the Web No.2
    —Utilization of overseas patent offices (China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand), and patent research—
    Yuko OGAWA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2003 Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 781-797
    Published: 2003
    Released on J-STAGE: February 01, 2003
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.781
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    Patent research is classified into two categories; one is patent information search covering official patent gazettes, and another is to examine patent status of a given patent. The former requires to examine the particular patents among huge volume of patents applied listed in official gazettes exhaustively. The latter requires to examine corresponding patents, citation literature and others on a given patent precisely and in detail. This series brief useful databases for those patent researches in terms of data contents and searching methods. It consists of three parts. This article (No. 2) deals with patent information of the official patent gazettes available at Asian nations’ patent offices including China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand. With the homepages of each patent office the author describes data items of patent information and how to search patent information.
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  • Fostering IT human resources in Asia—Hong Kong: IT promotion as a leader of a knowledge and technology intensive industry
    Masakazu NARUSE
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2003 Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 798-803
    Published: 2003
    Released on J-STAGE: February 01, 2003
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.45.798
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    While the telecom infrastructure in Hong Kong has been excellent, a progressive decline can be seen in the electronic manufacturing industry. With further growth in the trade and real estate business retaining their roles as the main contributors to the Hong Kong economy highly not possible as well, the Hong Kong government then tries to attain the advancement of industry by setting forth an IT promotion policy. However, in Hong Kong, since there is no foundation of research and development and with a shortage of IT professionals, the policy has to proceed from the basic level. Therefore, it takes time for a knowledge and technology intensive industry to develop into a leader of the Hong Kong economy.
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