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Explaining Measures to Prevent Information Leakage: What Should be Included in the Company's Internal Regulations?

Explaining Measures to Prevent Information Leakage: What Should be Included in the Company's Int.

Data leakage can potentially inflict devastating damage on corporate activities. Therefore, it is crucial to establish preventative measures intern...

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Explaining the Laws that Operators of Side Job Matching Sites Should Understand

Explaining the Laws that Operators of Side Job Matching Sites Should Understand

From April 1, 2019 (Heisei 31), the Japanese Work Style Reform Law has been gradually implemented, enabling workers to choose various work styles, ...

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Match-fixing, Substitution, Cheating... Explaining Misconduct and Lawsuit Cases Related to eSports Overseas

Match-fixing, Substitution, Cheating... Explaining Misconduct and Lawsuit Cases Related to eSpor.

Professional gaming, now ranked among children's dream jobs, is gaining popularity. Particularly overseas, e-sports have been popular from a relati...

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Services as an Escrow Agent by Law Firms and Attorneys

Services as an Escrow Agent by Law Firms and Attorneys

Escrow is a mechanism that ensures the safety of transactions by involving a third party between the seller and the buyer. In other words, for exam...

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Interim Judgment in the 'Mario Kart' Case and Intellectual Property Rights Infringement

Interim Judgment in the 'Mario Kart' Case and Intellectual Property Rights Infringement

Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the public road kart rental company "Maricar" (now MARI Mobility Development) seeking an injunction and 50 million...

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What are the Cases and Reasons for a Lawyer to Decline a Case? An Explanation by a Lawyer

What are the Cases and Reasons for a Lawyer to Decline a Case? An Explanation by a Lawyer

Have you ever found yourself in a predicament and thought about consulting a lawyer?However, it's important to understand that lawyers are not obli...

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How to Write a Warning Letter When You Discover a Trademark Infringement

How to Write a Warning Letter When You Discover a Trademark Infringement

If there are products or services infringing on your company's trademark rights, the rights holder can demand the cessation of its use and claim da...

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What is Trademark Infringement? Explaining the Framework for Determining Illegality

What is Trademark Infringement? Explaining the Framework for Determining Illegality

By obtaining trademark rights for your company's products and materials, you can prevent so-called "Ripoffs".However, a trademark right is not, for...

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'What is the Abolished (Former) 'Japanese Attorney Fee Standard'? An Introduction to the Specific Calculation Method'

'What is the Abolished (Former) 'Japanese Attorney Fee Standard'? An Introduction to the Specifi.

When engaging a lawyer, it is naturally of great concern how much the cost will be.In fact, previously, each bar association to which a lawyer belo...

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'What Happens When You Upload Videos Filmed in No-Filming Areas or Voyeur Videos to YouTube?'

'What Happens When You Upload Videos Filmed in No-Filming Areas or Voyeur Videos to YouTube?'

On YouTube, a variety of videos from different genres are uploaded daily. However, there are instances where videos filmed in prohibited areas or v...

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An In-depth Explanation of Why 'Comp Gacha' is Illegal and its Relationship with the 'Japanese Prize Display Act'

An In-depth Explanation of Why 'Comp Gacha' is Illegal and its Relationship with the 'Japanese P.

In recent years, the number of people making in-app purchases in smartphone games (social games) has increased, and the market size has grown to ex...

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What are the Differences and Distinctions between Dispatch, Secondment, Quasi-Delegation, Contracting, Disguised Contracting, and Worker Supply?

What are the Differences and Distinctions between Dispatch, Secondment, Quasi-Delegation, Contra.

Not only for IT companies and IT-related projects, but for all businesses, human resources and labor-related practices can often lead to complex le...

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Understanding the Criteria and Penalties (Imprisonment & Fines) for 'Trademark Infringement' Through Case Studies

Understanding the Criteria and Penalties (Imprisonment & Fines) for 'Trademark Infringement'.

Once you have registered your company name, product name, etc. as a 'Japanese Trademark Right', if someone else is using that trademark without per...

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'Points to Note When Using Free Materials with Limited Usage such as 'Personal Use OK''

'Points to Note When Using Free Materials with Limited Usage such as 'Personal Use OK''

When creating a website for your company, you might consider using free materials for buttons and icons.However, even though they are referred to a...

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What is the Average Time Required for Time-Charged Legal Services such as Contract Document Creation?

What is the Average Time Required for Time-Charged Legal Services such as Contract Document Crea.

Many law firms, including ours, often handle tasks such as contract drafting, review, and revision on a "time-charge" basis, meaning that the attor...

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What is Double Pricing? Explaining Points to Avoid Violating the 'Japanese Premiums and Representations Act' and Penalties

What is Double Pricing? Explaining Points to Avoid Violating the 'Japanese Premiums and Represen.

"Half off the regular price!" Such price displays, which emphasize the low selling price to consumers by comparing it with other prices, are common...

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