Law (Intellectual Property Law) C

Academic unit or major

Humanities and social science courses

Instructor(s)

Hironao Kaneko / Masataka Ohta / Yoh-Ichi Tagawa / Kiyoshi Tohda / Tomoko Sugano / Kanako Inokuchi / Morihiro Okamoto / / / Sonoko Tanaka / Nobumichi Tosa / Katsuhiro Takeda

Class Format

Lecture (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

5-6 Mon (W9-326(W935)) / 5-6 Thu (W9-326(W935))

Class

-

Course Code

LAH.S303

Number of credits

200

Course offered

2023

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Jul 8, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course provides precious opportunity to study about technology and intellectual property law for the common sense of scientists and engineers. This course is fit for prospected students of Patent attorney. This course lecturers(Hironao Kaneko, Youichi Tagawa, Masataka Ohta, Kiyoshi Toda, Tomoko Sugano, Kanako Inokuchi, Morihiro Okamoto, Nobumichi Tosa, Norihisa Ogawa, Hideo Ogura, Sonoko Tanaka, Katsuhiro Takeda, et al). This course is succession of "Science Technology and Intellectual".
Combining Intellectual Property, Design, Innovative Idea and Start Up Venture, student learn more than law.
Many patent attorneys are practicing the alumni of Tokyo Institute of Technology. The patent attorney is the profession to patenting intellectual property and protecting the client's intellectual property right. This process is necessary to gain the fund that is necessary to continue research work and invention by entrepreneurs. In 2022, the number of the successful candidates of the national patent attorney exam became 16 that occupies 5.6% of all.

Course description and aims

Understand whole intellectual property law system in Japan and competition law for international businesses.
Understand the intellectual property establishing conditions, procedure, infringement suite etc.

Student learning outcomes

実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)

Lectures are practicing JPO, attorney at law , Patent attorney, etc.

Keywords

patent copyright trademark trade secret unfair competition design

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

understanding basic knowledge of intellectual law and case laws through discussions.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

non

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Shigeki Chaen, CHITEKIZAISANHO-NYUMON, Yuhikaku

Evaluation methods and criteria

intermediate paper test(for understanding confirmation) and 3 reports (one report at every Block)

Related courses

• LAH.S102 ： Law (Civil Law) A
• LAH.S202 ： Law (Civil Law) B
• LAH.S302 ： Law （Civil dispute Resolution Law) C

Prerequisites

hoping positive participation and joining discussion each lectures

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

kaneko(@)ila.titech.ac.jp

Other

Please confirm the schedule uploaded in T2Scolarsystem at the material tab after register this course. (the order of content of lecture may be changed by lecture's schedule)
Students of Hitotsubashi University belonging to the For University Alliance Course: Please contact advisory staff (kaneko (@) ila.titech.ac.jp ) at enrolling in this course.