Dispatch of Lecturers～Strong Support for the Development of In-house Intellectual
Property Human Resource～
1. Toward Corporate Innovation and Brand Management
Companies need to formulate intellectual property strategies as an integral
part of business and research and development strategies under Intellectual
property management strategy and plan, execute, evaluate and Intellectual
property management and Intellectual property legal affairs for innovation andbrand management based on such intellectual property strategies.
Intellectual property management and legal affairs cover a wide variety ofintellectual property (rights), designs (design rights), works (copy rights), tradesecrets, and trademarks (trademark rights), and encompass all phases ofcorporate activities at multiple levels: creation and acquisition in the research anddevelopment department, protection in the intellectual property and legal
departments, and utilization in the business departments. While each of thesesubjects and activities must be integrated as a whole from the perspective ofinnovation and brand management, each of them is also highly specialized andinternational in nature, and furthermore, each system and operation changes aiquickly, often, and significantly.

In order to meet the needs of such companies, we provide acomprehensive range of intellectual property-related services in cooperation
with attorneys and patent attorneys who are highly specialized, up-to-date,and experienced, both in Japan and abroad, in order to secure external
human resources and outsource intellectual property management and legalservices to companies. In addition, in order to support the development ofinternal human resources, we also dispatch our attorneys and patent
attorneys as lecturers on a variety of Intellectual property-related topics.
For this type of lecturer dispatch, we have prepared standardized
presentation materials on basic topics in advance. Many of our attorneys
and patent attorneys have experience as lecturers at various internal andexternal workshops and seminars, and some of our experts have lectured on
intellectual property law at law schools, universities, and other institutions.
Therefore, please feel free to contact us for more information on how we candispatch lecturers on a variety of topics at a reasonable cost depending on
your specific individual needs.

4. Examples

・Three-day course in specification drafting for corporate researchers andinventors
・Training on trade secrets and information security for employees ofcompanies
・Two- to three-hour training sessions on U.S. patent law for corporate
2. Difficulty in Training and Securing Suitable Human Resources
intellectual property departments
Therefore, in order to accurately formulate intellectual property strategies and ・Presentation of important Intellectual Property High Court cases in recent
accurately execute intellectual property management and intellectual property legal years for corporate legal departments
・Examples of startups and the use of intellectual property for small andaffairs, it is essential for companies, including management, to establish
appropriate organizations and systems for each of the above divisions and stages medium enterprises
on a daily basis, and to continue to strive to develop and secure appropriate
human resources.
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rapidly become more sophisticated and complex in line with changes in the social
economy, and it has become necessary for companies to further upgrade the skillsof their existing personnel, who are mainly suited to patenting inventions, licensing,and clearance and enforcement defense of other parties’ patents, as well as todevelop new personnel who can deal the mix of intellectual property rights, open
innovation such as various alliances and (international) standardization, and openand close.
Eriko KITAHARA
WriterKei IIDA
Hironobu HATTORI

3. Strong Support for Intellectual Property Human Resource Developmentof Client Companies

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