RCLIP English Database of Asian I/P Precedents

The Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property at Waseda University has three major projects. The first is to develop an English database of IP dispute cases (precedents) in Asian regions including Japan. The project requires relations with scholars and practitioners in the respective Asian nations to collaborate on cases and translate them into English.

Linking an English database with the existing IP database of the Western nations will facilitate the second project, which focuses on collaborating with researchers and practitioners globally, as well as developing younger researchers with IP expertise in Asia. To go along with the results of these two projects, a third project will deliver IP related policy proposals in an independent think tank. In this sense, three projects are conducted independently, but are connected very closely.