# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（訴訟記録の閲覧等の請求の通知等） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（訴訟記録の閲覧等の請求の通知等） — (Notices of Requests to Inspect Case Records) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12 **第一項** 秘密保持命令が発せられた訴訟（全ての秘密保持命令が取り消された訴訟を除く。）に係る訴訟記録につき、民事訴訟法第九十二条第一項の決定があった場合において、当事者から同項に規定する秘密記載部分の閲覧等の請求があり、かつ、その請求の手続を行った者が当該訴訟において秘密保持命令を受けていない者であるときは、裁判所書記官は、同項の申立てをした当事者（その請求をした者を除く。第三項において同じ。）に対し、その請求後直ちに、その請求があった旨を通知しなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-1 If a court has made a ruling under Article 92, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure with regard to the case record in a litigation in which a protective order has been issued (excluding a litigation in which all the protective orders have been rescinded), a party has requested to inspect, etc. the part of the record that contains the secret prescribed under the same paragraph, and the person that followed the procedures for filing the request has not had a protective order issued against them in the litigation, the court clerk must, immediately after the request has been filed, notify the party that filed the motion under the same paragraph (excluding the person filing the request; the same applies in paragraph (3)) of the fact that the request has been filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、裁判所書記官は、同項の請求があった日から二週間を経過する日までの間（その請求の手続を行った者に対する秘密保持命令の申立てがその日までにされた場合にあっては、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまでの間）、その請求の手続を行った者に同項の秘密記載部分の閲覧等をさせてはならない。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the court clerk must not allow the person that followed the procedures for filing the request under the same paragraph to inspect, etc. the part of the record that contains the secret under the same paragraph until two weeks have elapsed since the date of the request (or, if a motion is filed for a protective order against the person in question on or before that date of the request, until the date on which the judicial decision on that motion becomes final and binding). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、第一項の請求をした者に同項の秘密記載部分の閲覧等をさせることについて民事訴訟法第九十二条第一項の申立てをした当事者の全ての同意があるときは、適用しない。 art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if there is consent among all parties that have filed a motion under Article 92, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure to allow the person that filed the request under paragraph (1) to inspect, etc. the part of the record that contains the secret. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12/par-1: 民事訴訟法第九十二条第一項 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第九十二条第一項 (Article 92, paragraph (1)), art-92/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-12/par-1: 第三項 → 不正競争防止法 第十二条第三項 (Article 12, paragraph (3)), art-12/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-3 - art-12/par-2: 前項 → 不正競争防止法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-1 - art-12/par-3: 前二項 → 不正競争防止法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-1 - art-12/par-3: 前二項 → 不正競争防止法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-2 - art-12/par-3: 民事訴訟法第九十二条第一項 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第九十二条第一項 (Article 92, paragraph (1)), art-92/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 第十二条第一項（訴訟記録の閲覧等の請求の通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-1 - 不正競争防止法 第十二条第二項（訴訟記録の閲覧等の請求の通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/par-2 - 不正競争防止法 第十二条第三項（訴訟記録の閲覧等の請求の通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-12/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 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 189 — 不正競争防止法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11