注）この書籍の本文はすべて英文です


《Contents》
1.Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Problems with current Japanese law
1.3 Methodological apploach
1.4 Definition
1.5 The object of legal protection
1.6 Focus and limitation of this study

2. History of the legal protection of trade secrets
2.1 Chuetsu-Waukesha Yugen kaisha v. Deutsche Werft Aktiengesellschaft
2.2 German law compared to Japanese law
2.3 Comparative analysis of Japanese and German law:Why did Japan have loopholes in its legal protection of trade secrets?
2.4 The 1993 Amendment of the Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Act
2.5 English law compared to Japanese law
2.6 Conclusions

3 The scope of subject matters to be legally protected as trade secrets
3.1 German law
3.2 Japanese law
3.3 English law
3.4 Conclusions

4. Protection of trade secrets under criminal law
4.1 German law
4.2 Japanese law
4.3 English law
4.4 Conclusions of the comparative study

5.Protection of Trade Secret under Private law:Do Civil Remedies function as Deterrents?
5.1 Level of damages
5.2 Conclusions

6. Protection of trade secrets during civil procedures
6.1 Japanese law
6.2 German law
6.3 English law
6.4 Conclusions

7. Proposals for Japanese Law to protect trade secrets during trials
7.1 Protective methods in procedure for oral argument
7.2 Methods relating to the protection of documents
7.3 Conclusions

8. Concluding Remarks

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