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Any of the kinds of conduct listed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of this Act, such as using an indication of goods or business (商品等表示) like another's well-known one so as to cause confusion, dealing in goods that imitate the form of another's goods, wrongfully acquiring, using or disclosing a trade secret (営業秘密) or shared data with limited access (限定提供データ), providing devices, programs or services for getting around technological restriction measures (技術的制限手段) used in business, misleading indications about goods or services, and spreading false statements that harm a competitor's business reputation.
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営業秘密
Production methods, sales methods or other technical or business information useful for business activities that is kept under control as a secret and is not publicly known.
秘密として管理されている生産方法、販売方法その他の事業活動に有用な技術上又は営業上の情報であって、公然と知られていないもの
Technical or business information, other than a trade secret (営業秘密), that is accumulated in significant quantity and managed by electronic or magnetic means as information provided to specific persons in the course of business.
業として特定の者に提供する情報として電磁的方法（電子的方法、磁気的方法その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方法をいう。次項において同じ。）により相当量蓄積され、及び管理されている技術上又は営業上の情報（営業秘密を除く。）
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
秘密保持命令
A court order under Article 10, paragraph (1), made by ruling at a party's request in a lawsuit over business interests infringed by unfair competition (不正競争), forbidding a party, etc. (当事者等), counsel or assistant in court to use a trade secret (営業秘密) that comes up in the case for any purpose other than conducting the lawsuit, or to disclose it to anyone not bound by such an order.
A trademark as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Trademark Act: a mark people can perceive, made of characters, figures, signs, three-dimensional shapes or colours or a combination of them, sounds, or anything else a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, that a person who produces, certifies or transfers goods in business uses on those goods, or that a person who provides or certifies services in business uses for those services.
商標法第二条第一項に規定する商標
商品等表示
A name, trade name (商号), trademark, mark, container or packaging of goods, or anything else connected with a person's business that indicates their goods or business.
人の業務に係る氏名、商号、商標、標章、商品の容器若しくは包装その他の商品又は営業を表示するもの
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 51 of 2023.
商品の形態
The outer and inner shape of goods, together with the pattern, colour, gloss and texture combined with that shape, as purchasers can perceive it when using the goods in the normal way.
需要者が通常の用法に従った使用に際して知覚によって認識することができる商品の外部及び内部の形状並びにその形状に結合した模様、色彩、光沢及び質感
組織的犯罪処罰法
Short name for the Act on Punishment of Organized Crimes and Control of Proceeds of Crime (Act No. 136 of 1999).
A court ruling in a criminal case, under Article 23, paragraph (1) or (3), that a matter which would identify all or part of the information making up a trade secret (営業秘密) is not to be revealed in open court.
Acquiring a trade secret (営業秘密) by theft, fraud, duress or any other wrongful means.
Acquiring shared data with limited access (限定提供データ) by theft, fraud, duress or any other wrongful means.
プログラム
Instructions to a computer, combined so that they can produce a particular result.
電子計算機に対する指令であって、一の結果を得ることができるように組み合わされたもの
当事者等
A party (当事者) to the lawsuit, or the representative of a party that is a corporation, or a party's agent (other than counsel or an assistant in court), employee or other worker.
当事者（法人である場合にあっては、その代表者）又は当事者の代理人（訴訟代理人及び補佐人を除く。）、使用人その他の従業者
営業秘密構成情報特定事項
A matter that would identify all or part of the information making up a trade secret (営業秘密) that a court in a criminal case has decided, by a protective ruling (秘匿決定) under Article 23, paragraph (1) or (3), not to reveal in open court.
秘匿決定により公開の法廷で明らかにしないこととされた営業秘密を構成する情報の全部又は一部を特定させることとなる事項
Disclosing a trade secret (営業秘密) in breach of a legal duty to keep it secret, or disclosing it, after being shown it by the trade secret holder (営業秘密保有者), for the purpose of gaining a wrongful profit or of causing that holder damage.
前号に規定する場合において同号に規定する目的でその営業秘密を開示する行為又は秘密を守る法律上の義務に違反してその営業秘密を開示する行為
Producing things by using a technical secret (技術上の秘密) of the kind Article 5-2, paragraph (1) covers, one concerning production methods or other information a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, or any other act a Cabinet Order specifies as clearly showing that the secret was used.
In Article 5-2, a document, drawing or recording medium in which a technical secret (技術上の秘密) is written or recorded.
技術上の秘密が記載され、又は記録された文書、図画又は記録媒体
不正の目的
The purpose of gaining a wrongful profit, of causing damage to another person, or any other wrongful purpose.
不正の利益を得る目的、他人に損害を加える目的その他の不正の目的
In Article 37, paragraph (1), the crime that a foreign state's request for mutual assistance (共助) says was committed: a request to enforce a final judgment of confiscation (没収) or collection of equivalent value (追徴), or to secure property for one.
共助の要請において犯されたとされている犯罪
新法
The Unfair Competition Prevention Act as wholly revised by Act No. 47 of 1993, that is, this Act itself, which replaced the earlier Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Act No. 14 of 1934).
The Unfair Competition Prevention Act of 1934 (Act No. 14 of 1934) as it stood before Act No. 47 of 1993, this Act, wholly revised it.
Disclosing shared data with limited access (限定提供データ), after being shown it by its holder (限定提供データ保有者), for the purpose of gaining a wrongful profit or of causing that holder damage.
前号に規定する場合において同号に規定する目的でその限定提供データを開示する行為
標章
A mark as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Trademark Act: anything people can perceive that is made of characters, figures, signs, three-dimensional shapes or colours or a combination of them, sounds, or anything else a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.
商標法第二条第一項に規定する標章
A measure that uses electronic or magnetic means to restrict viewing images or listening to sounds, running programs, processing information, or recording images, sounds, programs or other information, by recording on a medium or transmitting either signals that make viewing devices respond in a particular way, or information converted so that viewing devices must perform a particular conversion.
電磁的方法により影像若しくは音の視聴、プログラムの実行若しくは情報の処理又は影像、音、プログラムその他の情報の記録を制限する手段であって、視聴等機器（影像若しくは音の視聴、プログラムの実行若しくは情報の処理又は影像、音、プログラムその他の情報の記録のために用いられる機器をいう。以下この項において同じ。）が特定の反応をする信号を記録媒体に記録し、若しくは送信する方式又は視聴等機器が特定の変換を必要とするよう影像、音、プログラムその他の情報を変換して記録媒体に記録し、若しくは送信する方式によるもの
The date Act No. 51 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
ドメイン名
The letters, numbers, symbols or other characters, or a combination of them, that correspond to the number, symbol or character combination assigned on the internet to identify an individual computer.
インターネットにおいて、個々の電子計算機を識別するために割り当てられる番号、記号又は文字の組合せに対応する文字、番号、記号その他の符号又はこれらの結合
被侵害者
In Article 5, paragraph (1), a person whose business interests have been infringed by any of the unfair competition (不正競争) listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) to (xvi) or (xxii).
In Article 10, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 11, paragraph (2), the electronic record (電磁的記録) of a court ruling issuing a protective order (秘密保持命令), or ruling on a petition to revoke one, made under Article 252, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied by Article 122 of that Code and recorded in a file on the court's computer under Article 253, paragraph (2) as so applied.
民事訴訟法第百二十二条において準用する同法第二百五十二条第一項の規定により作成された電磁的記録（同法第百二十二条において準用する同法第二百五十三条第二項の規定により裁判所の使用に係る電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。）に備えられたファイルに記録されたものに限る。）
In Article 21, paragraph (2), item (i), a document, drawing or recording medium in which a trade secret (営業秘密) is written or recorded.
営業秘密が記載され、又は記録された文書、図画又は記録媒体
呼称等の決定
A court ruling under Article 23, paragraph (4) that sets a substitute name or other expression to be used in a criminal trial in place of the name or other wording for a matter that would identify a trade secret (営業秘密) the court has decided not to reveal in open court.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 33 of 2018 and of Act No. 51 of 2023, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act as amended by Article 1 of that Act (for Act No. 33 of 2018, leaving out the amendments listed in Article 1, item (iii) of its supplementary provisions).
Producing things by using a technical secret (技術上の秘密) of the kind Article 5-2, paragraph (1) covers, one concerning production methods or other information a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, or any other act a Cabinet Order specifies as clearly showing that the secret was used.
A business operator that holds shared data with limited access (限定提供データ).
指令符号
In Article 2, paragraph (1), items (xvii) and (xviii), an instruction to a computer that can produce a particular result by itself alone.
電子計算機に対する指令であって、当該指令のみによって一の結果を得ることができるもの
In Article 2, paragraphs (7) and (8), electronic, magnetic or any other means that people cannot perceive with their senses.
電子的方法、磁気的方法その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方法
侵害者
In Article 5, paragraph (1), a person who, intentionally or negligently, infringed the business interests of the infringed party (被侵害者) through any of the unfair competition (不正競争) listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) to (xvi) or (xxii).
In Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), the quantity corresponding to circumstances that would have kept the infringed party (被侵害者) from selling or providing all or part of what the infringer (侵害者) sold or provided up to the infringed party's capacity; item (i) deducts it from that quantity.
譲渡等数量
In Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), the quantity of the goods or services in question that the infringer (侵害者) transferred or provided.
販売等能力相応数量
In Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), the quantity matching the infringed party's (被侵害者) capacity to sell the goods or provide the services in question.
In Article 5-2, paragraphs (2) and (4), the letters, numbers, symbols or other characters that identify the sender of an automatic public transmission (自動公衆送信), meaning a transmission made automatically at the public's request so that the public receives it directly, other than broadcasting or cable broadcasting.
自動公衆送信（公衆によって直接受信されることを目的として公衆からの求めに応じ自動的に送信を行うことをいい、放送又は有線放送に該当するものを除く。）の送信元を識別するための文字、番号、記号その他の符号
A mark identical or similar to a mark that represents an international organization (国際機関) and that a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) specifies, the organization being an intergovernmental one or one that such an Order specifies as equivalent.
In Article 18, paragraph (2), items (iv) and (v), an international organization made up of governments or of intergovernmental international organizations.
政府又は政府間の国際機関によって構成される国際機関
In Article 19, paragraph (1), item (iii) and Article 19, paragraph (2), item (ii), a registered trademark as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Trademark Act: a trademark that has been registered.
同法第二条第五項に規定する登録商標
In Article 21, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), stealing property, breaking into a facility, unauthorized computer access (不正アクセス行為) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access, or any other act that undermines the trade secret holder's (営業秘密保有者) control over its trade secrets.
財物の窃取、施設への侵入、不正アクセス行為（不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律（平成十一年法律第百二十八号）第二条第四項に規定する不正アクセス行為をいう。）その他の営業秘密保有者の管理を害する行為
詐欺等行為
In Article 21, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), deceiving a person, using violence against a person, or threatening a person.
人を欺き、人に暴行を加え、又は人を脅迫する行為
債権等
In Articles 32 and 34, any property other than real estate and movable property, such as a claim.
不動産及び動産以外の財産
This Act as it stood before Act No. 54 of 2015 amended it.
The date Act No. 33 of 2018, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name for the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022).
組織的犯罪処罰法
Short name for the Act on Punishment of Organized Crimes and Control of Proceeds of Crime (Act No. 136 of 1999).
不正使用行為
In Article 2, paragraph (1), item (x), any of the acts in items (iv) to (ix) of that paragraph that consists in using a technical secret (技術上の秘密), meaning a trade secret (営業秘密) that is technical information.
影像の視聴等
In Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) or (xviii), viewing images or listening to sounds, running programs, processing information (recorded in electronic or magnetic form), or recording images, sounds, programs or other information, where the technological restriction measure (技術的制限手段) that item deals with restricts it.
影像の視聴等
In Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) or (xviii), viewing images or listening to sounds, running programs, processing information (recorded in electronic or magnetic form), or recording images, sounds, programs or other information, where the technological restriction measure (技術的制限手段) that item deals with restricts it.
権利
In Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxii), a right concerning a trademark, limited to one equivalent to a trademark right, held in a country of the Paris Union, a member of the World Trade Organization or a party to the treaty on trademark law.
模倣する
To make goods whose form is substantially the same as the form of another person's goods, by relying on that form.
他人の商品の形態に依拠して、これと実質的に同一の形態の商品を作り出すこと
視聴等機器
In Article 2, paragraph (8), equipment used for viewing images or listening to sounds, running programs, processing information, or recording images, sounds, programs or other information.
影像若しくは音の視聴、プログラムの実行若しくは情報の処理又は影像、音、プログラムその他の情報の記録のために用いられる機器
A foreign state's national flag, coat of arms or other emblem that a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) specifies.
Anything identical or similar to a foreign state's national flag, coat of arms or other emblem that a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) specifies.
A foreign state's coat of arms specified by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) under Article 16, paragraph (1).
A seal or sign that a foreign national or local government uses for supervision or certification and that a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) specifies.
Anything identical or similar to a seal or sign that a foreign national or local government uses for supervision or certification and that a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) specifies.
In Article 17, an intergovernmental international organization, or an international organization that a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令) specifies as equivalent to one.
政府間の国際機関及びこれに準ずるものとして経済産業省令で定める国際機関
Anyone listed in Article 18, paragraph (2): a person in public service for a foreign national or local government; a person working for a body set up under a foreign country's special law to carry out specific public-interest work; a person working for a business that foreign governments control, by directly owning more than half its voting shares or capital or by appointing most of its officers, and to which they grant special rights, or a person a Cabinet Order (政令) treats as equivalent; a person in public service for an international organization made up of governments or intergovernmental organizations; or a person doing work that any of those governments or organizations has delegated.
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普通名称等
The common name of goods or a business (other than a name of the place of origin of something made from grapes that has become a common name), or an indication of goods or business (商品等表示) customarily used for the same or similar goods or business.
使用
In Article 19, paragraph (1), item (iii), use of a mark as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Trademark Act, such as putting the mark on goods, their packaging or things used in providing a service, selling or otherwise dealing in goods that bear it, or putting it on advertisements, price lists or trade documents.
同法第二条第三項に規定する使用
違法使用行為
In Article 21, paragraph (1), item (v), an act by the offender or another person that is an offence under items (ii) to (iv) of that paragraph or under Article 21, paragraph (4), item (iii), and that consists in using a technical secret (技術上の秘密).
従業者等違法使用行為
In Article 21, paragraph (2), item (v), an act by the offender or another person that is an offence under items (ii) to (iv) of that paragraph or under Article 21, paragraph (5), item (iii), and that consists in using a technical secret (技術上の秘密).
In Article 24, paragraph (2), a person's name, address or other matter that would identify an individual, as defined in Article 201-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, here those covered by a measure taken under Article 271-2, paragraph (4) of that Code.
同法第二百一条の二第一項に規定する個人特定事項
In Article 9 of this Act's original supplementary provisions (附則), a mark similar to that of an international organization (国際機関類似標章) under Article 17, other than one identical or similar to an emblem, flag or other insignia, abbreviation or name of an intergovernmental international organization designated by the competent minister (主務大臣) under Article 4-2 of the former Act, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act of 1934 (Act No. 14 of 1934) as it stood before this Act replaced it.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 116 of 1994, the day the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization takes effect for Japan.
Any of the kinds of conduct listed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of this Act, such as using an indication of goods or business (商品等表示) like another's well-known one so as to cause confusion, dealing in goods that imitate the form of another's goods, wrongfully acquiring, using or disclosing a trade secret (営業秘密) or shared data with limited access (限定提供データ), providing devices, programs or services for getting around technological restriction measures (技術的制限手段) used in business, misleading indications about goods or services, and spreading false statements that harm a competitor's business reputation.
同法第二条第一項に規定する不正競争
In Article 2, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 51 of 2023, information that newly becomes shared data with limited access (限定提供データ) under Article 2, paragraph (7) as amended by Article 1 of that Act, and that was acquired before that Act came into effect through an act corresponding to the unfair competition (不正競争) listed in that paragraph's items.
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
弁護人等
Defense counsel, or someone about to become defense counsel at the request of a person entitled to appoint one (a non-lawyer only after court permission under Article 31(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure).