# 不正競争防止法 / Unfair Competition Prevention Act — 第七十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 77)（不正競争防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5041-48/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5041-48/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条（不正競争防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-48/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5041-48/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5041-48/art-77 **第一項** 前条の規定による改正後の不正競争防止法第十条第三項及び第四項並びに第十一条第二項の規定は、施行日以後に提起される不正競争（同法第二条第一項に規定する不正競争をいう。以下この条において同じ。）による営業上の利益の侵害に関する訴えにおける秘密保持命令の送達及び効力の発生時期について適用し、施行日前に提起された不正競争による営業上の利益の侵害に関する訴えにおける秘密保持命令の送達及び効力の発生時期については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1 The provisions of Article 10, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act as amended by the provisions of the preceding Article apply to the service and the time of taking effect of a protective order in an action concerning infringement of business interests through unfair competition (meaning unfair competition prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) filed on or after the Effective Date, and with regard to the service and the time of taking effect of a protective order in an action concerning infringement of business interests through unfair competition filed before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1: 不正競争防止法第十条第三項 → 不正競争防止法 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-10/par-3 - suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1: 第四項 → 不正競争防止法 第十条第四項 (Article 10, paragraph (4)), art-10/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-10/par-4 - suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1: 第十一条第二項 → 不正競争防止法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-11/par-2 - suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1: 同法第二条第一項 → 不正競争防止法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/art-2/par-1 - suppl-5041-48/art-77/par-1: この条 → 不正競争防止法 附則第七十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 77), suppl-5041-48/art-77 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/unfair-competition-prevention-act/suppl-5041-48/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000047/suppl-5041-48/art-77 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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/ja/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-20261011T031431-004, 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