International Workshop on the Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights
Date: June 26 Sunday
Place: Seminar room on the second floor, Institute of Innovation Research,
Hitotsubashi University
Fax 042-580-8410, Tel 042-580-8431 (http://www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/)
Room opens at 9:30 and coffee offered
Time allocation: 30 minutes presentations in English, 5 to 10 minutes by each discussant and 25
to 20 minutes general discussions in English or in Japanese)
Morning session (Presentations in English, Discussions in English or in Japanese)
Chair Professor Yoshiyuki Tamura, Hokkaido University
10:00-11:00
Ⅰ. Economic analysis of IP exhaustion
Dr. Peter Ganea (Max-Planck Institute and Visiting Professor to IIR)
Discussant Eiichi Tomiura, Professor, Department of Economics, Yokohama
National University
11:00-12:00
Ⅱ. Efficient appropriation of R&D investments and the exhaustion principle
Professor Sadao Nagaoka (Hitotsubashi University)
Discussant Yoshio Ohara, , Emeritus Prof. at Kobe University, Minerva
Patent-Law Office
12:00-13:00
III. “Exhaustion and trade between developed and developing countries:
China as an Example”
Professor Xiang Yu (余 翔) (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Discussant Yamane, Hiroko Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies
Lunch (Bento served)
Afternoon session (Presentations in Japanese, Discussions in English or in Japanese)
Chair Hiroshi Saito, Professor of Law at Senshu University
14:00-15:00
Ⅳ. Exhaustion theory in Japanese case law Professor Yoshiyuki Tamura, Hokkaido University
Discussant Mimura Ryoichi, Judge, Intellectual Property High Court
15:30-16:30
V. Exhaustion as subject to freedom of contract? Some thoughts on the “implied
license” doctrine (provisional)
Professor Hisao Shiomi, Tsukuba University
Discussant Professor Yoshiyuki Tamura, Hokkaido University
16:30-17:30
VI. Effects of new technologies on copyright exhaustion – on the feasibility of the
so-called “online exhaustion”
Dr. Peter Ganea (Max-Planck Institute and Visiting Professor to IIR)
Discussant(1) Hiroshi Saito, Professor of Law at Senshu University
Discussant(2) Fumihiko Moriya General Manager, Intellectual Property
Department, Sony Corporation
Reception at the seminar room