Ⅰ.GENERAL QUESTIONS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 3
Of Traditional Values and Modernity：A New Japanese Litigiousness？&Harald Baum and Moritz Balz 3
Fifteen Years of the Eurasian Patent System&Alexander Grigoriev 27
Positive Attitude of the Japanese Judiciary on Patent Cases&Eiji Katayama 33
The Role of Patent Firms in the Economic Development of Japan&Masatake Shiga 45
The Reform of Japanese Judicial System to Make an IP-Based Nation&Ryo Tokunaga 57
Japan’s History of Intellectual Property Policy and Patent Act&Shozo Uernura and Hiroshi Kato 67
The Court of Justice of the European Union：The Future European and EU atents Court：Hierarchy，Complementarity，Rivalry？&Harms Ullrich 81
Ⅱ.PATENT PROSECUTION AND PATENTABILITY REQUIREMENTS 95
“Support Requirement” in Japan：A Private Practitioner’s View&Yuriko Harnada 95
Current State of Disclosure Requirements in Japan：A Judge’s View&Toshiaki Iimura 107
Allowability of Disclaimers&Willem A.Hoyng 121
Can a Prior Foreign Application not Satisfying the Disclosure Requirement Serve as a Basis for the Convention Priority？&Ryo lwatani 133
Opposition Proceedings at the EPO：Tips for Success&David Lethem 145
Recent Intellectual Property High Court Decisions in Japan on Inventive Step&Shoichi Okuyama 157
Keeping the Patent-Eligibility Door Open for New Technologies&Harold C.Wegner 169
Ⅲ.PATENT LITIGATION SYSTEMS 187
Copying：Forbidden-Allowed-Desirable-Required？&Christian Gassauer-Fleissner 187
The Interaction between Infringement and Nullity Decisions in German Patent Disputes&Peter Meier-Beck 201
Patent Litigation in Switzerland-At the Brink of a New Era&Michael Ritscher 211
Notable Differences between Korean and German Patent Infringement and Invalidation Practices&Jay Young-June Yang，Dae-Woong Noh and Martin Kagerbauer 221
Ⅳ.PATENT LITIGATION：PROCEDURAL LAW 233
Protective Order in Japan／Waves from U.S.，towards Taiwan&Takanori Abe and Li-Jung Hwang 233
The New German Nullity Procedural Law：A Means to Shorten the Length of the Proceedings？&Thorsten Bausch 253
Seizure Proceedings in the Netherlands：A New Weapon？&Frank van Bouwelen 273
Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation in the UK&Trevor Cook 289
Rights to Sue for Assignment in Japanese Patent Law&Kazufumi Dohi 303
Expediency of Amendments during Nullity Appeal Proceedings&Klaus Fuchsle and Kathrin Fuchsle 317
The Rare German Negative Declaratory Action&Wolfgang von Meibom and Christian Harmsen 327
A Study of International Jurisdiction in Japan, Europe and the United States&Hiroshi Morita 343
The Seizure Infringement Procedure under French Patent Law&Gerard Portal 357
Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation in Germany&Dirk Schussler-Langeheine 377
Ⅴ.PATENT LITIGATION: SUBSTANTIVE LAW 395
Interpretation and Determination of the Scope of Patents by the French Courts&Gerard Dossmann 395
Patent Infringement by Multiple Parties in Japan&Makoto Hattori 409
Parallel Imports of Trade Marked Goods in Japan&Christopher Heath 425
Equivalent Infringement：A Question of Time？&Niels Holder 445
What Can an Applicant Do before the Grant of a Patent？Compensation Claim in Japanese and German Law&Atsushi Kawada 457
Goods in Transit and Intellectual Property Rights under European Law&Simon Klopschinski 485
When are Products “Directly”Obtained by a Process？&Thomas Kuhnen 509
Patent Exhaustion in Japan&Ryoichi Mimura 521
“Patent Exhaustion Doctrine”：Maintenance，Replacement，and Recycling from a Comparative Perspective&Mineko Mohri 527
The Examination of Technical Issues in Patent Litigation&Yukio Nagasawa 545
Thoughts on Prior Art as an Auxiliary Means in Patent Interpretation in Germany&Thomas W.Reimann 553
Ⅵ.PATENT PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICALS 563
More about Pharmaceutical Patents (Especially “Sufficiency of Disclosure”)&Giuseppe Bianchetti 563
Patent Term Extension in Japan：Quo Vadis？&Marc Dernauer 589
The Enforcement of Second Medical Use Claims in Germany&Andreas von Falck and Miriam Gundt 611
Provocative Thoughts on the Patenting of New Pharmaceuticals&Bernd Hansen 627
Scope of Protection of Supplementary Protection Certificates in Relation to Combination Products&Frank-Erich Hufnagel 651
The Protection of Medicinal Products by Supplementary Protection Certificates&Matthias Kindler 665
Obama Care：Implications for Research Pharmaceutical Companies&Paul N.King 695
Protection of Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical-Related Inventions in East Asian Countries&Hajime Tsukuni 711
Ⅶ.EMPLOYEE INVENTION LAW 735
The German Act on Employees’Inventions：Time to Say Goodbye？&Peter Klusmann 735
The Employee Invention System in Japan and High Amounts of Remuneration&Shoji Matsui 747
Corporate Remuneration Systems for Employees’Inventions in Japan and Germany&Anja Petersen-Padberg 757
Ⅷ.UTILITY MODEL LAW 795
Experiences with Utility Models in Russia&Vladimir Biriulin 795
The Present and Future of Japan’s Utility Model System&Masashi Kurose 801
German Utility Models：An Effective IP Right&Henrik Vocke 811
Ⅸ.CLOSING WORDS 825
Building Bridges between Germany and Japan&Motoaki Suzuki 825