IP Bridge, Inc. (Chiyoda-ku Tokyo) (IP Bridge) members participated in “IPBC Japan 2018” (organized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM)) in Tokyo on September 13, 2018 as moderator and “IPBC Asia 2018” (also organized by IAM) in Shanghai on December 2 to 4, 2018 as speaker.

Director of corporate planning and IP procurement, Minoru Fujiki, moderated a session titled “Enabling SMEs” at IPBC Japan 2018 where he and other speakers discussed how to energize SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) from an IP aspect, including new models of patent licensing and technology transfers.

License Program Manager, Koichi Kishida, presented as a speaker in a session titled “Dispute Navigation”. In this session, he discussed various dispute resolution approaches in Japan, including how to solve disputes without litigation and how to improve chances of success. He also exchanged his thoughts with other speakers from China, Korea and Taiwan.

 

IPBC Japan 2018

[Topic]
Enabling SMEs
[Moderator]
Minoru Fujiki, Director, corporate planning and IP procurement, IP Bridge
[Speakers]
Larry Davis, Managing director, IP Innovations, GE Licensing
Hiroshi Kawana, General manager of IP, KDDI
Yutaka Nagao, Vice president, Technology initiatives and business development, Intertrust Technologies
Kazuhiko Takeda, Director, IP promotion division, Japan Patent Office

 

IPBC Asia 2018

[Topic]
Dispute Navigation
[Moderator]
Jacob Zhang, Partner, Lung Tin Intellectual Property
[Speakers]
Koichi Kishida, License Program Manager, IP Bridge
YP Jou: President and CEO, ScienBiziP Japan
Albert Lee: Senior IP Council, LG Display
Steven Liu: Director of IP, MediaTek

 

IP Bridge continues to contribute the development of IP fields as a global opinion leader. Furthermore, we contribute the development of healthy growth of industries by promoting a global innovation though IP commercialization.

 

【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.