| 抄録 |
Last year within Japan, there were new attempts aimed at resolving intellectual property (IP)-related disputes out of court, using an alternative dispute resolution system (ADR). One such effort was the newly established Group concerned with IP disputes within the Division 22 (the Mediation Division) of the Tokyo District Court; yet another was the Industrial Property Arbitration Center set up by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) and the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA). In light of these movements, this paper will introduce these two domestic Japanese organiza-tions via their actual results thus far, provide a brief explanation of the ADR systems in Europe and the United States, and finally, to sum up, will present some considerations regarding the use of ADR from the perspective of a Japanese company which is hypothesized to have actually become involved in an intellectual property infringement case in Europe, the United States, and/or Japan. |
