We invited Mr. Atsushi NOZAKI, IP Information Consultant and CEO of e-Patent Co., Ltd., as a lecturer. This seminar was held online to prevent our members from gathering as a measure against COVID-19. He gave a lecture titled as “Latest Trend of AI and Quantum Computer in Terms of Patents.” His seminar is held once per year, and this was the third time for us. Our members understood not only the latest trend on AI and quantum computer but also the latest patent applications by GAFA(Google、Apple、Facebook、Amazon ) and our clients.
We invited Mr. Atsushi NOZAKI, IP Information Consultant and CEO of e-Patent Co., Ltd., as a lecturer. He gave a lecture titled as “Search of Laid-Open Public Foreign Patents”. Mr. NOZAKI has given us the lecture about the search of domestic patents in two year ago, and therefore, the present lecture is second time for him. We understood how to use the major search sites such as Espacenet, USPTO Website, Google Patent, etc. We also visited other useful search sites. Some of our members are not familiar with the Google Patent. However, they could study varied useful functions of the Google Patents through the seminar. We intend to train our members such that they can actively use and analyze the IP information, thereby contribute to our clients.
We invited Mr. Tsugio YAMADA, Standardization Advisor of the Japanese Standards Association, as a lecturer and held an internal seminar regarding the “Business Strategies by IP and Standardization”. Mr. YAMADA talked about some interesting examples in which some companies achieved strategic standardization with combining standard and IP. Moreover, we understood some points of “New Market Creating Type Standardization Scheme” applied for unique (excellent) technology specific to the companies.
We invited Mr. Satoshi NIKI, Attorney at Law, of NISHIMURA & ASAHI LAW FIRM as a lecturer and held an internal seminar regarding the “Basic Knowledge and Risk of Open Source License Software”. Mr. NIKI talked about a concept of “Copyleft” which is basis of the OSS (Open Source Software) License, recent trend of OSS and the risk that OSS infringes third party’s patent right with explaining specific examples.
October 10, 2018 Mr. Yoshiyuki MACHIDA, senior partner of our firm, participated in “Wuhan City of Automobile Intellectual Property Summit 2018” in China and talked in the title of “Research of Intellectual Property Rights protecting Artificial Intelligence Business”. He got a high reputation from the organizer of the forum since his lecture was very meaningful and valuable for protecting the intellectual property rights relating to the artificial intelligence in China. October 11, 2018 Mr. MACHIDA visited the Wuhan City Intellectual Property Office and discussed about current situation and problems of IP protection, and the assistances for Japanese companies in Wuhan city.
We invited Mr. Yoshinori TAKANO, Attorney at Law/Patent Attorney, of UCHIDA & SEMEJIMA LAW FIRM as a lecturer and held an internal seminar regarding the “IP Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises”. Mr. TAKANO clearly explained us many IP related points being useful for business of small and medium-sized enterprises such as Patent Strategies for surviving in their own markets, use of patent within contract and claim drafting with considering business activities.
We invited Mr. Koichi IWADE and Mr. Daisuke AIHARA of Coordinate Corporation as a lecturer and held an internal seminar regarding the Information Security for all of our staffs. They explained latest examples of fraud, virus infection and targeted threat using an email or website, and talked about specific countermeasures thereto. This seminar could raise security awareness of our staffs.
We invited Mr. Yoshitaka OHTA of JPO, member of examination guideline room in coordination division of first examination section, as a lecturer to one of our training programs. He gave a talk about an examination guideline handbook for the IoT related technologies, which was revised on March 2017.
We invited Mr. Atsushi NOZAKI, IP Information Consultant, as a lecturer to one of our training programs. He gave a lecture titled as “Patent Search Techniques for Patent Attorneys and Patent Engineers”. He gave a talk about an efficient creating method of search formula for prior art search.
We invited Mr. Kazunori INARI as a lecturer to one of our training programs. He gave a talk about “Deep Learning and IoT Business”. He belongs to Research Institute of System Planning Inc. (ISP) which, as well as our office, is a member of Artificial Intelligence Business Creation Association (AIB Association).
