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Intellectual Property Law (Tachibana) Lab
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A lab that examines topics such as the right to repair through intellectual property law and information law.

AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how rules should be designed through intellectual property law and information law
Associate Professor Yusuke Tachibana specializes in intellectual property law and information law.
The listed research themes also include telecommunications law, information security law, and internet law.
Published papers and presentations cover topics such as indirect infringement of patent rights, the right to repair, and legal policy on cyber supply chain security.
Prof. Tachibana belongs to the Strategic Design Division of the Faculty of Design, and holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of Design of the School of Design and the Department of Design of the Graduate School of Design.
Key terms
- Right to repair
- An idea described as the user's right to make decisions about the products they own. Legislation on it typically takes the form of obligations for manufacturers to provide repair parts and the like.
- Indirect infringement of patent rights
- A category of acts defined in Article 101 of the Patent Act that are deemed to be infringement of a patent right.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab specializes in intellectual property law and information law, and also lists telecommunications law, information security law, and internet law as research themes. It examines patent rights, the right to repair, and legal frameworks for cyber supply chain security, covering the systems of the US and the EU as well as Japan.
Indirect Infringement of Patent Rights
The lab studies indirect infringement of patent rights, using US law as a point of comparison. Taking the reconciliation of patent rights and the public domain as its central issue, it compiles proposals for Japanese law.
*Illustrative imageThe Right to Repair and Intellectual Property
The lab studies the relationship between users' right to repair products and the intellectual property system. It analyzes the legal systems of the EU and the US, Japanese court decisions, and more.
*Illustrative imageLegal Policy on Supply Chain Security
The lab examines legal systems and policy developments in the US and the EU from the perspective of cyber supply chain security. Topics include software bills of materials and incident reporting frameworks.
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: “Electronics Repair Workbench” 10kdollz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The Right to Repair and Intellectual Property: “Repair Café” HellasX / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Legal Policy on Supply Chain Security: “Container-Terminal Bremerhaven 02” H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Intellectual Property Law Lab): “Books on shelf at the Ghalib Chamber Law Library” Linason Blessing / 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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