CEO and COO, Minoru Fujiki, from IP Bridge, Inc. (“IP Bridge”) participated at RPX Asia Conference held in November 13, 2019 in Taipei and November 15, 2019 in Kyoto.
Fujiki served as a panelist in a session entitled “Fair and Reasonable? Licensing Standard Essential Patents (“SEP”)”. He especially discussed about potential problems for licensing SEP, standardization activities, the current situation of patent pools and challenges and mechanism of SEP utilization to promote innovation.
(Kyoto session)
■ Topic
Fair and Reasonable? Licensing Standard Essential Patents
■ Moderator
Robert Heath, RPX Corporation, Executive Vice President
■ Panelists
1) Minoru Fujiki, IP Bridge, Inc., CEO and COO
2) Mattia Fogliacco, Sisvel Group, Chief Executive Officer
3) Masanori Hasegawa, Cannon Inc., Department chief of licensing 1st group
(Taipei session)
■ Topic
Fair and Reasonable? Licensing Standard Essential Patents
■ Moderator
Robert Heath, RPX Corporation, Executive Vice President
■ Panelists
1) Minoru Fujiki, IP Bridge, Inc., CEO and COO
2) Mattia Fogliacco, Sisvel Group, Chief Executive Officer
3) Steven Lie, Media Tek Inc., Director of the Intellectual Property Division
【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.