# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) — address `suppl-4051-47/art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条 suppl-4051-47/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-9 **第一項** 新法第十七条の規定は、この法律の施行前に開始した同条に規定する国際機関類似標章（旧法第四条ノ二に規定する政府間国際機関ノ紋章、旗章其ノ他ノ徽章、略称又ハ名称ニシテ主務大臣ノ指定スルモノト同一又ハ類似ノモノを除く。以下「民間国際機関類似標章」という。）を商標として使用し、又は民間国際機関類似標章を商標として使用した商品を譲渡し、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し、若しくは民間国際機関類似標章を商標として使用して役務を提供する行為に該当するものを継続する行為については、適用しない。 suppl-4051-47/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-9/par-1 The provisions of Article 17 of the new Act do not apply to the continuation of any act that falls under the act of using a mark similar to that of an international organization as prescribed in Article 17 of the new Act (excluding a mark identical or similar to the emblem, flag, or other insignia, abbreviation, or name of an intergovernmental organization designated by the competent minister as prescribed in Article 4-2 of the former Act; referred to as "mark similar to that of a private international organization" below) as a trademark; any act that falls under the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, importing, providing through telecommunications lines goods using a mark similar to that of a private international organization as a trademark; or any act that falls under the act of providing services using a mark similar to that of a private international organization as a trademark, if the act in question commenced before this Act comes into effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4051-47/art-9/par-1: 新法第十七条 → 不正競争防止法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-17 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不正競争防止法 附則第十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-4051-47/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-4051-47/art-14/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 - This site's parser, version 189 — 不正競争防止法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11