The Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) Asia, where global players and various experts in the IP business gather for discussions.
On November 29, a master class was held focusing on how to maximize the value of a patent portfolio.
This session discussed how to seize opportunities in new markets by leveraging intellectual property and the concept of setting business goals
in line with the power of intellectual property, with Osamu Watanabe, Director of IP Bridge, Inc.
IP Bridge Managing Director Mr. Honda spoke at the 2023 LES Asia Pacific Conference held in Shenzhen, China on November 17-18, 2023.
Honda participated in a panel discussion during the conference’s “New Rules New Games: Recent Developments Affecting IP Commercialization” session, where he discussed the importance of “License Executives,” who are experts in providing licenses.
The main topics of discussion are as follows.
【Session Title】
New Rules New Games: Recent Developments Affecting IP Commercialization
【Panelist】
Mr. Daisuke Honda, Managing Director of Licensing Business Department at IP Bridge
Mr. Roger Tu, SVP & General Manager, Asian Markets for Avanci
Mr. Sven Torringer, Director, Senior Counsel Legal & Business at Sisvel and Program Manager for the Sisvel Cellular IoT Patent Pool
Mr. Zhuang Yuan, Executive Director at Beijing KiiStone Ventures
Mr. Wei Dong, Chief Adviser at IP Finding Management LTD
【Moderator】
Mr. Alan Fan, Vice President for Intellectual Property at Huawei
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Director, Koichi Kishida, from IP Bridge, Inc.(“IP Bridge”) will participate at IPBC Japan 2020 held in November 17-18, 2020 on online.
IPBC Japan is specifically designed for management and senior IP executives at leading domestic and international companies, research institutions and government bodies. 2020 will be no exception with our virtual format enabling an even larger group, from across Japan and around the world, to assemble online. Since its first event in 2014, IP Bridge has been a host country sponsor, and put in the effort for the success of this event.
At IPBC Japan 2020, Kishida served as a speaker in a session entitled “Litigation at home and away”. In this session, speakers especially discussed about landmark decisions as well as litigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions.
■ Topic
Litigation at home and away
■ Speaker
Koichi Kishida IP Bridge, Director, Licensing
Robert Calico Arm, Vice President, IP and Litigation
Tatsuya Yamamoto Maxell, General Manager, IP Innovation BU
Naoki Yoshida Finnegan Japan, Managing Partner
Guanyang Yao Liu Shen & Associates, Partner
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc. located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, (“IP Bridge”) cosponsored ASIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD (“AEA2020”), at Kashiwanoha conference center (“KCC”) in Kashiwanoha Campus, Chiba held from October 27 to 29, 2020. In this AEA, 30 tech ventures selected from 13 countries and areas mostly from Asia gathered and gave pitch presentations for their passion and future of their technology. Among those, IP Bridge selected “Chronoptics Limited” in New Zealand, a start-up company of 3D imaging solutions using a high level Time-of-Flight depth sensing technology, and “Mantra Inc.” in Japan, a start-up company of Manga translation tool using Visual & Context-aware Translation, for IP Bridge Award. (https://aea.events/e/aea2020_winners/)
IP bridge selected these two companies for the reason of that, Chronoptics made continuous effort to obtain patent rights with the university, and made a new PCT, world wide patent application recently, and Mantra’s mission is very close to IP Bridge’s mission, which is to protect IP rights and monetize them for IP rights owners.
Chronoptics Limited
Mantra Inc.
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc. and VALUENEX Japan, Inc. will officially start a conversation of collaboration with the aim of combining VALUENEX’s big data analytics technologies and IP Bridge’s world-class IP consulting services to provide clients with new value.
IP Bridge, Inc. (IP Bridge) is a leader of intellectual property-related transactions and is Japan’s first and largest IP fund. By leveraging high quality IP assets owned by major companies, IP Bridge provides licensing services to a broad range industries, facilitates improvement of corporate values based on IP, and promotes technological innovation by forming business alliances around the globe.
VALUENEX Japan, Inc. (“VALUENEX”) has expertise and proprietary big data analytics technologies & methodologies, providing services to a global client base by offering unique insight through text mining and data visualization.
The collaboration of VALUENEX and IP Bridge will combine top-class services to advance the exploration of business alliances and cross-industry cooperation, taking a data-based approach to strategic usage and monetization of intellectual property. This will bolster the growth of companies, expand their innovation in Japan, and strengthen their international competitiveness.
ABOUT IP BRIDGE
| Company name | IP Bridge, Inc. | Headquarters | Chiyoda-ku, | Established | July 2013 |
| Representatives | CEO Minoru Fujiki
CFO Tatsushige Yonaha |
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| Business overview | Intellectual property-related business involved in licensing, acquiring, retaining, managing, using, and enforcing intellectual property rights. Consults and advises businesses utilizing intellectual property rights. |
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| Web Site | https://ipbridge.co.jp/eng/ | ||||
ABOUT VALUENEX
| Company name | VALUENEX Japan, Inc. | Headquarters | Bunkyo-ku, | Established | Aug 2006 |
| Representatives | CEO & Founder Tatsuo Nakamura | ||||
| Business overview | VALUENEX is a big data analytics platform and consulting services company, powered by proprietary algorithms, machine intelligence, and teams of data scientists and expert analysts. Founded as a startup in 2006 and listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2018, the company provides solutions for Corporate/R&D strategy development, IP monetization and evaluation, financial investment analyses and leveraging, and technology convergence mapping. | ||||
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc (IP Bridge) proudly announced that two members from IP Bridge were named to the IAM Strategy 300: Minoru Fujiki (Co-CEO and COO) and Koichi Kishida (Director, Licensing).
IAM Strategy 300 is the list of 300 “World’s Leading IP Strategists” selected by IAM each year based on a plurality of nominations and criteria.
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc. (“IP Bridge”) located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo achieved the IP BASE encouragement prize in eco-system section for 1st IP BASE AWARD.
This award was established in 2020, and the individuals and organizations that have taken remarkable actions in terms of motivation, advancement and attracting interest in the fields of intellectual property were entitled to receive this award. IP BASE committee selected winners considering the result of questionnaire for venture business using Japan patent office venture support portal website called【IP BASE】.Past IP Bridge’s effort to support venture business resulted in the prize.
IP Bridge continuously contributes to promotion of innovation in Japan and strengthening the international competitiveness of Japan by using intellectual property.
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc. (the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO and COO: Minoru Fujiki, CEO and CFO: Tatsushige Yonaha) (“IP Bridge”) hereby announce that a new holding company funded by the current management of IP Bridge and others, “I Holdings Inc.” (the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, president and COO: Tatsushige Yonaha) is assigned all stocks of IP Bridge owned by INCJ, Ltd., (the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, president and COO: Mikihide Katsumata) (“INCJ”) from INCJ.
IP Bridge started its business since July 2013 with the support from INCJ (including its former entity, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan), it has contributed to promote open innovation through utilization of the intellectual property. In recent years, as IP Bridge has successfully showed a certain level of achievement for development of the intellectual property business in Japan, the current management of IP Bridge decides to establish the new holding company and to be assigned the stocks from INCJ to aim for further growth as the intellectual property fund.
Even after the stock assignment, IP Bridge will continuously contribute to promote creation and utilization of the intellectual property and technical innovation. Especially, IP Bridge will continue to value its corporate culture, management policy and philosophy nurtured up to today. From the business perspective, while the existing business such as licensing and innovation remains to be our core business, IP Bridge plans to expand its business to enhance alignment with companies promoting innovation in Japan and abroad and investors supporting such companies. Due to the stock assignment this time, IP Bridge is ready to promote diversification of its partner companies and will gather power of such companies to develop the intellectual property business further in order to activate the economy.
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc. (the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO and COO: Minoru Fujiki, CEO and CFO: Tatsushige Yonaha) (“IP Bridge”) and Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Seiji Nakata) (“Daiwa Securities”) decided to conclude a business collaboration agreement in order to contribute business activities and economic development through creation and utilization of the intellectual property and promotion of technical innovation.
While Daiwa Securities sets its traditional securities business as its core business, it further aims to provide “new value” through expansion and enhancement of the external network and surrounded business as a hybrid-type general securities group. On the other hand, IP Bridge has achieved successful track record for the intellectual property business since its establishment and further aims to expand its business through patent licensing and support for the start-up companies. Through this collaboration, the two companies put its strength together to create new value in the intellectual property and financing field. To be more specific, the following is a list of items of collaboration.
(1) Introduce customers of Daiwa Securities to IP Bridge
(2) Mutually offer joint investment opportunities between Daiwa Securities and IP Bridge
(3) Jointly promote the intellectual property related business by combining resources of both Daiwa Securities and IP Bridge including personnel and assets
IP Bridge has been leading the intellectual property-based business as one and only biggest intellectual property fund in Japan. IP Bridge has succeeded in concluding patent license agreements with a lot of global companies in the field of semiconductors, wireless communication and video compressors. In addition, in the field of the support for middle and small size start-up companies, IP Bridge has archived to increase corporate value of many start-up companies through intellectual property support service. Through this business collaboration, IP Bridge will make the best use of the network and excellent know-how in the area of finance of Daiwa Securities in order to support more companies to activate the economy.
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.
IP Bridge, Inc. (“IP Bridge”) located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo received the intellectual property utilization support grand award for Year 2019, selected by Japan Patent Attorneys Association.
This award was established since 2014, and the companies which actively promote intellectual asset management using intellectual property were entitled to receive this award during the event called “the intellectual property management week” held and lead by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. IP Bridge has engaged in various activities to promote utilization of patents and this award represents the social recognition of activity of IP Bridge.
For more details on commendation for the intellectual property utilization, please refer to the following web sites of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association:
– Press release on commendation by the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (Japanese only):
– The Japan Patent Attorneys Association web sites:
https://www.jpaa.or.jp/old/?cat=546 (in English)
https://www.jpaa.or.jp/(in Japanese)
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.