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Intellectual Property Law Lab
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The lab centers on intellectual property law and information law to explore the law of telecommunications and security.

AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about the rules of intellectual property and information through law.
The lab of Associate Professor Yusuke Tachibana takes intellectual property law, information law, telecommunications law, information security law, and internet law as its research themes.
In its papers, the lab addresses topics such as indirect infringement of patent rights and the relationship between the right to repair products and the intellectual property system.
The lab also investigates legal policy on cyber supply chain security and Japan's security clearance system.
Associate Professor Tachibana belongs to the Strategic Design Division of the Faculty of Design.
Key terms
- Right to repair
- The idea that users have the right to make decisions about the products they own. In legislation, it takes the form of obligations to provide repair parts and repair manuals
- Security clearance
- A system that limits work handling information whose leakage could harm national security to persons judged unlikely to leak it. A suitability assessment is conducted as part of the certification
ResearchResearch themes
The lab takes intellectual property law and information law as its core and has telecommunications law, information security law, and internet law as research themes. Its papers address topics such as indirect infringement of patent rights, the right to repair, and legal policy on cyber supply chain security.
*Illustrative imageIntellectual Property Law
The lab studies indirect infringement of patent rights in comparison with US law, and also examines in its papers the relationship between the right to repair products and the intellectual property system.
*Illustrative imageInformation Security Law
The lab investigates legal policy on cyber supply chain security in the US and the EU. It also organizes the content of, and the issues with, Japan's security clearance (suitability assessment) system.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYusuke Tachibana
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Books on shelf at the Ghalib Chamber Law Library” Linason Blessing / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Intellectual Property Law: “Law Books 9” Vdollero / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Information Security Law: “Firewall (networking)” Luis F. Gonzalez / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Intellectual Property Law (Tachibana) Lab): “Electronics Repair Workbench” 10kdollz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Haptics Lab): “Braille Glove” Profile Editor 12 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Haptic Informatics Lab (Xinni He)): “Mixed media art installation Perpetual Patterns” Rot8ion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Speech Information Processing Lab): “Tracto vocal” Itsnaaav / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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