LES JAPAN NEWS
VOL.50 No.4, December 2009


Colum My half-year lectures on the subject of "Business Laws for Engineers" Tomoaki Naganawa

1.LES International Delegates & Committee Meeting Report
(1)LES Delegates Meeting (San Francisco) October 22-24, 2009
(1)LES International Delegates & Committee Meeting Masau Takayanagi
(2)LESI DELEGATES SAN FRANCISCO MEETING Junichi yamazaki
(3)LESI–IUGT Committee Kiyohide Okamoto
(4)Meeting Committee Katusmi Harashima
(5)External Relations Committee Ichiro Nakatomi
(2)LES Delegates Meeting (Manila) June 7-10, 2009 (Continuation of the former volume) Sumiko Kobayashi
(1)Chemicals, Energy and Environment Committee
(2)The presentation of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Committee

2.Articles
(1)Building a bio cluster around Sapporo via collaboration between academia and industry
Hiroshi Takemoto, Fumio Suzuki
(2)Issues over a Succession of Intellectual Property in Connection with Corporate Divestiture
Hidesato Iida

3.Working Groups Reports
(1)Case Law (OSAKA) Kazuhiro Kobayashi
(2)Valuation of IP (OSAKA) Takao Yagi

4.Monthly Seminars
[TOKYO]  
August 2009:
“Demonstration of Licensing Negotiations (Mock): Negotiation for Licensing Agreement between Universities and Industries”
Hiroyuki Kogure
Speaker: Hideyuki Ogata, Makoto Ogino, Yutaka Hara, Katusmi Harashima, Jinzo Fujino, Toru Kobayashi
September: “Mistakes or blind spots for Japanese companies in US patent disputes” Shinichi Murata
Speaker: Yoshinari Kishimoto
[OSAKA]  
October: “Issues Concerning Protection of Trade Secrets”-from recent precedents- Takao Yagi
Speaker: Nobuo Matsumura

5.New Members and the new member's self introduction

6.Member's plaza
Essay on self-written Chinese poem Jinzo Fujino
My happenings on my business trip (7) Masau Takayanagi
Fireside Chat to Next Generation (4) Akira Mifune
SENRYU (short humorous poem) as I like (4) Toshihiko Kanayama
Book Review ”Explanatory Notes to Supreme Court Precedents Concerning
Intellectual Property” -commemorating Dr. Shoen Ono's 77th birthday-
Kazunori Yamagami
Book Review “Standardization and Business” Takao Yagi

7.Announcement of LESJ
(1)Contents of LES JAPAN NEWS are opened to LESJ website
(2)LESI Young Members Congress - Next Steps
(3)Announcement for LESI Conference in South Africa Sandton 11-14 April 2010