Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 5 / 2022
ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744
PDF (Ukrainian)DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/52022.270789
Published 2022-12-29
The growing role of intellectual property in Japan’s national economic security: legislative provision
Gennadiy Androshchuk
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0781-9740
Abstract
The article examines the role of intellectual property, in particular, the Institute of Secret Inventions in the development of the Japanese economy, ensuring the national economic security of the state. An analysis of the new Law on Strengthening National Security through Comprehensive Economic Measures, adopted on May 11, 2022, is given. The organizational and economic mechanism for ensuring measures aimed at strengthening Japan’s national economic security is considered: a system that ensures a stable supply of critical materials, a system for supporting the development of critical technologies, and a secret patent system. Japan’s Economic Security Act gives the Japanese government the right to determine economic threats and risks associated with foreign economic activity. Focusing on four areas of economic security — supply chains, basic infrastructure, advanced technology and the publication of patents on sensitive technologies — the law allows the national government to intervene in Japanese companies’ deals with foreign companies. It is concluded that the economic and legal institution of secret inventions, which directly affects national security, will gain more and more importance. And certain provisions of the Law can be used in law-making and law-enforcement activities in Ukraine: a system for supporting the development of critical technologies, designated patent classifications (Designated Patent Classifications) in the fields of technology that can affect national security, guidelines for non-disclosure, security expertise, a system of preliminary determination secrecy, government compensation for restrictions in the form of payment of «ordinary damages», sanctions for leaking undisclosed patent information.
Keywords: intellectual property, innovation, national security, economic security, critical technology, critical infrastructure, inventor, non-disclosure guidelines, security expertise, secret patent
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