# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第十一条 (Article 11) - Law: 不正競争防止法 (Unfair Competition Prevention Act), 平成五年法律第四十七号 - English title "Unfair Competition Prevention Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十一条 (Article 11)（秘密保持命令の取消し） — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条（秘密保持命令の取消し） — (Rescission of Protective Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11 **第一項** 秘密保持命令の申立てをした者又は秘密保持命令を受けた者は、訴訟記録の存する裁判所（訴訟記録の存する裁判所がない場合にあっては、秘密保持命令を発した裁判所）に対し、前条第一項に規定する要件を欠くこと又はこれを欠くに至ったことを理由として、秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てをすることができる。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11/par-1 A person that filed a petition for a protective order or a person to whom a protective order has been issued may file a motion to rescind the protective order with the court where the case record is kept (or, if no such court exists, with the court that issued the protective order) on the grounds that a requirement prescribed in the preceding Article, paragraph (1) has not been met or is no longer being met. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てについての裁判があった場合には、その電子決定書をその申立てをした者及び相手方に送達しなければならない。 art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11/par-2 If the court makes a judicial decision on a motion to rescind a protective order, it must serve an electronic written ruling on the party that filed the motion and the opposing party. machine translation, not official **第三項** 秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てについての裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11/par-3 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision on the motion to rescind a protective order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 秘密保持命令を取り消す裁判は、確定しなければその効力を生じない。 art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11/par-4 A judicial decision to rescind a protective order does not take effect until it becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 裁判所は、秘密保持命令を取り消す裁判をした場合において、秘密保持命令の取消しの申立てをした者又は相手方以外に当該秘密保持命令が発せられた訴訟において当該営業秘密に係る秘密保持命令を受けている者があるときは、その者に対し、直ちに、秘密保持命令を取り消す裁判をした旨を通知しなければならない。 art-11/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11/par-5 If a court has made a judicial decision rescinding a protective order, and, in the same litigation in which the protective order was issued, a protective order protecting trade secrets was issued against any person other than the party that filed the motion for rescission or the opposing party, the court must immediately notify that person of the decision rescinding the protective order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-11/par-1: 前条第一項 → 不正競争防止法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-10/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第十条第三項（秘密保持命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-10/par-3 - 不正競争防止法 第十九条第一項（適用除外等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-19/par-1 - 不正競争防止法 附則第三条第一項第四号（特許法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4161-120/art-3/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4161-120/art-3/par-1/item-4 - 不正競争防止法 附則第七十七条第一項（不正競争防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 不正競争防止法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/405AC0000000047/20260521_507AC0000000039), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Unfair Competition Prevention Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4920/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch unfair-competition-prevention-act-20261011T031431-001, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 不正競争防止法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11