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 CIS NO: 89-S261-11
 TITLE: Effect of the Japanese Patent System on American Business.
 SOURCE: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Senate
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+102 p.
 DATE: June 24, 1988
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 100-2             SUDOC: Y4.C73/7:S.hrg.100-874
 ITEM NO: 1041-A; 1041-B             PUB NO: S.Hrg.100-874
 LC CARD NO: 89-601015               MC ENTRY NO: 89-7048

 Hearing before the Subcom on Foreign Commerce and Tourism to review the
 impact of the Japanese patent system on U.S. and foreign firms in light of
 claimed disadvantages for foreign firms filing patent applications in Japan.
   Supplementary material (p. 85-102) includes correspondence and submitted
 statements.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Japanese patent system disadvantages for US and foreign
     firms
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON FOREIGN COMMERCE
     AND TOURISM. SENATE; PATENTS; JAPAN (Patent system in Japan,
     disadvantages for US and foreign firms); FOREIGN.LAWS; FOREIGN.TRADE;
     BUSINESS

 89-S261-11 TESTIMONY NO: 1         June 24, 1988 p. 4-39
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     QUIGG, DONALD J. (Assistant Secretary, Patents and Trademarks,
        Department of Commerce; Commissioner, Patent and Trademark Office)
     SMITH, MAUREEN R. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Japan, International
        Trade Administration)
     MASSEY, JOSEPH A. (Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and
        China)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Description of Japanese patent law, policy, and
     practice, focusing on disadvantages for foreign firms filing patent
     applications; differences between Japanese and U.S. patent systems;
     issues involved in negotiations to harmonize Japanese and U.S. patent
     systems.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Japanese patent system disadvantages for US and foreign
     firms
 DESCRIPTORS: OFFICE OF THE U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE; FOREIGN.RELATIONS;
     PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION;
     NEGOTIATIONS

 89-S261-11 TESTIMONY NO: 2         June 24, 1988 p. 39-72
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SPERO, DONALD M. (President, Fusion Systems Corp)
     MILLER, PETER D. (Representative Director, Fusion Japan)
     MICHAELSEN, ALFRED L. (Vice President and General Patent Counsel,
        Corning Glass Works)
     EVANS, LARRY W. (Director, Corporate Patent and License Division, BP
        America)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Diverse views on Japanese patent system
     fairness to foreign firms, with recommendations on U.S. policy; problems
     encountered by U.S. firms filing applications and firms issued patents
     in Japan; criticism of Japanese Government actions permitting patented
     foreign technology to be reproduced by Japanese firms.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Japanese patent system disadvantages for US and foreign
     firms
 DESCRIPTORS: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; FUSION SYSTEMS CORP.; CORNING, INC.;
     BP AMERICA

 89-S261-11 TESTIMONY NO: 3         June 24, 1988 p. 72-84
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     KAYTON, IRVING (Law Professor, George Mason University School of Law)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Legal background on Japanese and U.S. patent
     systems.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Japanese patent system disadvantages for US and foreign
     firms