IPA IP 2021 Question 9
A question IPA Japan published in 令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問9, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Among the inappropriate acts A through C, which of the following lists all and only the acts that are regulated by the Unfair Competition Prevention Act?
Explanation
Only C, the look-alike domain name — Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Act lists using a domain name like another's name for unfair profit as unfair competition.
The Act protects fair competition between businesses. Among the acts it defines as unfair competition are confusing others with someone else's well-known mark, stealing trade secrets, and acquiring, holding or using a domain name identical or similar to another person's product or company name to gain an unfair profit or to harm that person (cybersquatting).
- •A: using personal information beyond the purpose notified, without consent, is regulated by the Act on the Protection of Personal Information.
- •B: obtaining another person's ID and password and logging in with them is regulated by the Act on the Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access.
- •C: a domain name imitating another company's product or company name, for unfair profit, is unfair competition.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — A is a personal information matter, not unfair competition
- •(b) — adds A, which falls under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information
- •(c) — B is unauthorized computer access, covered by its own Act
Key rule: Unfair Competition Prevention Act: trade secrets, imitation and confusion of products and marks, and look-alike domain names; personal data misuse falls under the personal information Act, logging in with stolen IDs under the unauthorized access Act.
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