The provisions of Articles 3 through 15, Article 21, and Article 22 do not apply to the acts prescribed in the following items, as defined in the classification of unfair competition under those items:
第三条から第十五条まで、第二十一条及び第二十二条の規定は、次の各号に掲げる不正競争の区分に応じて当該各号に定める行為については、適用しない。
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), (xx), and (xxii):the act of using or indicating a common name for goods or business (excluding the name of a place of origin of things made from grapes or using grapes as an ingredient, which has become a common name), or using an indication of goods or business that is in common usage for identical or similar goods or business (collectively referred to as "common name, etc." below), in the manner this is normally done, or the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing, or providing through telecommunications lines goods that use or indicate a common name in the way this is normally done (including the act of providing services while indicating or using a common name, etc. in the way this is normally done, in cases of unfair competition stated in items (xx) and (xxii) of the same paragraph);
第二条第一項第一号、第二号、第二十号及び第二十二号に掲げる不正競争 商品若しくは営業の普通名称（ぶどうを原料又は材料とする物の原産地の名称であって、普通名称となったものを除く。）若しくは同一若しくは類似の商品若しくは営業について慣用されている商品等表示（以下「普通名称等」と総称する。）を普通に用いられる方法で使用し、若しくは表示をし、又は普通名称等を普通に用いられる方法で使用し、若しくは表示をした商品を譲渡し、引き渡し、譲渡若しくは引渡しのために展示し、輸出し、輸入し、若しくは電気通信回線を通じて提供する行為（同項第二十号及び第二十二号に掲げる不正競争の場合にあっては、普通名称等を普通に用いられる方法で表示をし、又は使用して役務を提供する行為を含む。）
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), and (xxii):the act of using one's own name without wrongful purpose (meaning the purpose of making any wrongful gain, causing damage to others, or any other wrongful purpose; the same applies below), or the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing, or providing through telecommunications lines goods using one's own name without wrongful purpose (including the act of providing services while using one's own name without wrongful purpose, in cases of unfair competition stated in the same items);
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii):in cases where, as a result of the trademark registration under Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Trademark Act, or as a result of the trademark registration pursuant to the provisions of the proviso of Article 8, paragraph (1), the proviso of Article 8, paragraph (2), or the proviso of Article 8, paragraph (5) of the same Act, a trademark right to a similar registered trademark (meaning a registered trademark as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the same Act; the same applies in this item and item (ii) of the following paragraph) to be used (meaning the use prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the same Act; the same applies in this item below) for identical goods or services, or a trademark right to an identical or similar registered trademark to be used for similar goods or services, has come to belong to different holders of trademark rights, the act of the holders of trademark right, whether exclusive or non-exclusive, using the registered trademark without wrongful purpose;
第二条第一項第一号及び第二号に掲げる不正競争 商標法第四条第四項に規定する場合において商標登録がされた結果又は同法第八条第一項ただし書、第二項ただし書若しくは第五項ただし書の規定により商標登録がされた結果、同一の商品若しくは役務について使用（同法第二条第三項に規定する使用をいう。以下この号において同じ。）をする類似の登録商標（同法第二条第五項に規定する登録商標をいう。以下この号及び次項第二号において同じ。）又は類似の商品若しくは役務について使用をする同一若しくは類似の登録商標に係る商標権が異なった商標権者に属することとなった場合において、その一の登録商標に係る商標権者、専用使用権者又は通常使用権者が不正の目的でなく当該登録商標の使用をする行為
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i):the act of a person using an indication of goods or business that is identical or similar to another person's indication of goods or business, prior to the other person's indication becoming well-known among consumers; or the act of a person succeeding to a business related to that indication of goods or business and using that indication without wrongful purpose; or the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing, or providing through telecommunications lines goods using that indication without wrongful purpose;
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii):the act of a person using an indication of goods or business that is identical or similar to another person's indication of goods or business, prior to the other person's indication becoming famous; or the act of a person succeeding to a business related to that indication of goods or business and using that indication without wrongful purpose; or the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing, or providing through telecommunications lines goods using that indication without wrongful purpose;
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii): any of the following acts:
the act of transferring, leasing, displaying for the purpose of transfer or lease, exporting, importing, or providing through telecommunications lines goods that imitate the form of goods if three years have elapsed since the date they were first sold in Japan;
日本国内において最初に販売された日から起算して三年を経過した商品について、その商品の形態を模倣した商品を譲渡し、貸し渡し、譲渡若しくは貸渡しのために展示し、輸出し、輸入し、又は電気通信回線を通じて提供する行為
the act by a person that has received goods that imitate the form of another person's goods through transfer (limited to a person that, at the time of receiving the goods, did not know, without gross negligence, that the goods imitated the form of another person's goods), of transferring, leasing, displaying for the purpose of transfer or lease, exporting, importing, or providing the goods through telecommunications lines;
他人の商品の形態を模倣した商品を譲り受けた者（その譲り受けた時にその商品が他人の商品の形態を模倣した商品であることを知らず、かつ、知らないことにつき重大な過失がない者に限る。）がその商品を譲渡し、貸し渡し、譲渡若しくは貸渡しのために展示し、輸出し、輸入し、又は電気通信回線を通じて提供する行為
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (ix):the act by a person that has acquired trade secrets through a transaction (limited to a person that, at the time of acquiring the trade secrets, did not know, without gross negligence, that the disclosure of those trade secrets was an act of improper disclosure or that there had been an intervening act of wrongful acquisition or improper disclosure of trade secrets with regard to the trade secrets in question), of using or disclosing the trade secrets within the scope of the title acquired through the transaction;
第二条第一項第四号から第九号までに掲げる不正競争 取引によって営業秘密を取得した者（その取得した時にその営業秘密について営業秘密不正開示行為であること又はその営業秘密について営業秘密不正取得行為若しくは営業秘密不正開示行為が介在したことを知らず、かつ、知らないことにつき重大な過失がない者に限る。）がその取引によって取得した権原の範囲内においてその営業秘密を使用し、又は開示する行為
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (x):the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing, or providing through telecommunications lines things created by the use of trade secrets after the rights prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) have been extinguished pursuant to that paragraph;
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (xi) through (xvi): any of the following acts:
第二条第一項第十一号から第十六号までに掲げる不正競争 次のいずれかに掲げる行為
the act by a person that has acquired shared data with limited access through a transaction (limited to a person that, at the time of acquiring the shared data with limited access, was unaware that the disclosure of that data was an act of improper disclosure or that there had been an act of wrongful acquisition or improper disclosure of shared data with limited access with regard to that data), of disclosing the shared data with limited access within the scope of the title acquired through the transaction;
取引によって限定提供データを取得した者（その取得した時にその限定提供データについて限定提供データ不正開示行為であること又はその限定提供データについて限定提供データ不正取得行為若しくは限定提供データ不正開示行為が介在したことを知らない者に限る。）がその取引によって取得した権原の範囲内においてその限定提供データを開示する行為
the act of acquiring shared data with limited access in which the information accumulated to a significant extent is the same as any information that has been made publicly available without compensation, or the act of using or disclosing such acquired shared data with limited access;
その相当量蓄積されている情報が無償で公衆に利用可能となっている情報と同一の限定提供データを取得し、又はその取得した限定提供データを使用し、若しくは開示する行為
unfair competition as stated in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (xvii) and (xviii):the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing a device prescribed in items (xvii) and (xviii) of the same paragraph; a recording medium on which a program or code prescribed in those items has been recorded; or a machine on which a program or code prescribed in the same items has been stored, where the device, recording medium, or machine is used for testing or research related to technological restriction measures; the act of providing the program or the code through telecommunications lines; or the act of providing a service prescribed in those items, conducted for testing or research on technological restriction measures.
A person whose business interests have been or are likely to be harmed by any of the acts of infringement prescribed in items (ii) through (iv) of the preceding paragraph may request another person, prescribed in each of the following items and defined in the classification of acts under these items, to affix an indication appropriate to prevent confusion between that person's goods or business and their own:
前項第二号から第四号までに定める行為によって営業上の利益を侵害され、又は侵害されるおそれがある者は、次の各号に掲げる行為の区分に応じて当該各号に定める者に対し、自己の商品又は営業との混同を防ぐのに適当な表示を付すべきことを請求することができる。
acts prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph:the person using their own name (including the person that personally assigns, delivers, displays for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exports, imports, or provides through telecommunications lines goods using their own name);
前項第二号に定める行為 自己の氏名を使用する者（自己の氏名を使用した商品を自ら譲渡し、引き渡し、譲渡若しくは引渡しのために展示し、輸出し、輸入し、又は電気通信回線を通じて提供する者を含む。）
the act prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph:the holder of the trademark right, the exclusive right to use the trademark, and the non-exclusive right to use the trademark relating to one of the registered trademarks referred to in the same item; and
acts prescribed in item (iv) of the preceding paragraph:the person using an indication of goods or business that is identical or similar to another person's indication of goods or business, and the person that has succeeded to a business related to that indication (including the person that personally assigns, delivers, displays for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exports, imports, or provides through telecommunications lines goods using that indication).