IP Bridge, Inc. (Chiyoda-ku Tokyo) (IP Bridge) members participated in “LESI 2019 Annual Conference” (organized by Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)) in Yokohama on May 26-28, 2019 as speaker.

Satoshi Konno (Director, Innovation), presented as a speaker in a session titled “Is IP Important for Startups? Why or Why not?”. In this session, he discussed various obstacles for Startups with instances. He also exchanged the ideal form and support of next-generation specialist including investor, IP specialist.

Takeo Yoshimura (Director, Licensing) presented as a speaker in a session titled “Knowledge Transfer from Universities”. In this session, he shared Japanese government effort to implement the outcome of R&D by universities. The effort woke up many universities and boosted the number of university-originated venture in Japan these days.

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.

 

[Topic] Is IP Important for Startups? Why or Why not?

[Moderator] Shingo Tsuda (Founder, Technical Director, INDEE Japan Ltd.)

[Speaker] Takafumi Yamamoto (President and Representative Director, TODAI TLO, Ltd.)

Satoshi Konno (Managing Director for Innovation, IP Bridge, Inc.)

Omer Hiziroglu, CLP (Managing Director, TLS.IP)

Rob McInnes, CLP (Principal, Rob McInnes IP Advisory)

 

 

[Topic] Knowledge Transfer from Universities

[Moderator] Mika Okada (Partner, City-Yuwa Partners)

[Speaker] Takeo Yoshimura(Licensing Director, IP Bridge, Inc.)

Laura MacDonald (General Manager, ASTP-Proton)

Takafumi Yamamoto (President and Representative Director, TODAI TLO, Ltd.)

Zhen XIE (Overseas R&D Office Project Manager, Tsinghua University)

 

※　【LESI 2019 Annual Conference Yokohama Japan】：http://www.lesi.yokohama/overview/

 

【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.

TOKYO, JAPAN – Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (“IP Bridge”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IP Bridge, Inc., announced today that it entered into patent license agreements with 10 multinational companies under which IP Bridge granted licenses to IP Bridge’s portfolio of semiconductor patents.

“We are pleased to have some of the world’s leading technology companies as licensees to our extensive semiconductor patent portfolio,” said Hideyuki Ogata, Executive Manager of IP Bridge. “IP Bridge welcomes any investor or corporation with their patents if it may contribute to IP Bridge’s mission of promoting open innovation.”

 

【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. (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.

IP Bridge, Inc. (Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, President Shigeharu Yoshii) (IP Bridge) established “Printable sensor code development association”(development association) together with Kokusai Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., C-INK Co., Ltd. and PMCODE Co.,Ltd. after receiving approval by Minister of METI. IP Bridge endeavors early commercialization of its owned patented technology regarding to printable sensor code through this development association. President of IP Bridge, Shigeharu Yoshii, assumes office as chairman of the development association. Above mentioned four companies including IP Bridge become member of the development association. Each member has surpassing knowledge regarding to open innovation, unique component technology for printable sensor code, and so forth. With the aim of promoting this technology, member conduct cooperative research by contributing staff and expense for this research. The achievement of the development association will be co-managed by member, and mutually utilized by member as well.

The development association intends to do product quality control and product quality assurance at thermal management during distribution by integration of printable thermal sensor (printable sensor code) technology, ink compounding technology and color code recognition technology. First target is to commercialize thermal management on medicine packaging in 2020.

 

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IP Bridge, Inc. Innovation Division
 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan – a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 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. And our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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.

　Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IP Bridge, Inc. (“IP Bridge”), announced that it joined the patent licensing platform launched and administrated by Avanci, LLC (“Avanci”) as a licensor in terms of its own wireless communications standards essential patents.

The licensing platform administrated by Avanci is a structure or program that offers one-stop licenses for patented wireless technologies of 2G, 3G and 4G standards to the Internet of Things (IoT) products such as Connected Car, Smart Meter and so on. The licenses are granted for companies which need to use the technologies for their IoT business on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND). The companies intending to enter the IoT industry will be relieved from spending excessive resources for negotiating individual licenses with multiple patent holders by taking this one stop licenses through the platform, and will be able to operate the IoT business in transparent environment.

IP Bridge would contribute to the healthy growth of the IoT industry through joining as a licensor in the Avanci’s efficient and transparent licensing platform.

 

About Avanci: http://avanci.com/
 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan – a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 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. And our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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. announced that Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (“IP Bridge”), an IP fund and wholly-owned subsidiary of IP Bridge, Inc., has purchased a portfolio of patents from a Japanese electronics company.

　The portfolio consists of patents related to video coding technologies such as H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Codec) and H.265/HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) standards. By this purchase of new patent portfolio, IP Bridge enhances synergy with its existing IP assets related to the standards and further drives its IP licensing activities.

 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan – a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 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. And our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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.

　TOKYO, JAPAN, September 29, 2017 — Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IP Bridge, Inc. (“IP Bridge”), announced today that on September 29, 2017 it entered into a patent license agreement with a global consumer electronics company under which IP Bridge granted the company a license under IP Bridge’s portfolio of wireless telecommunications standard-essential patents (including the GSM, W-CMDA and LTE wireless telecommunications standards). The agreement grants the licensee a worldwide license to practice the claimed inventions in connection with its products (including smartphones). Other terms of the agreement are confidential.

 

　IP Bridge is the owner of more than 800 standard-essential patents covering technologies relating to the implementation of wireless telecommunication air interface standards, and is committed to licensing its standard-essential patents on FRAND terms.

 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios consisting of over 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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.

　TOKYO, JAPAN, June 23, 2017 – – Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IP Bridge, Inc. (“IP Bridge”), announced today that on June 22, 2017 it entered into a patent license agreement with a multinational company under which IP Bridge granted such company a license under IP Bridge’s portfolio of wireless telecommunications standard-essential patents (including the GSM, W-CMDA and LTE wireless telecommunications standards). The agreement grants the licensee a worldwide license to practice the claimed inventions in connection with its products and services (including smartphones). Other terms of the agreement are confidential.

　IP Bridge is the owner of more than 800 standard-essential patents covering technologies relating to the implementation of wireless telecommunication air interface standards, and is committed to licensing its standard-essential patents on FRAND terms.

 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios consisting of over 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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.

　Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (“IP Bridge”) announced today that it has reached a settlement and license agreement with Avago Technologies US, Inc., Avago Technologies, Ltd., Broadcom Corporation, Broadcom Ltd., and LSI Corporation (collectively, “Broadcom”). The license relates to patented technologies used in a wide range of semiconductor products. The agreement resolves all pending patent disputes involving the parties.

　Broadcom is the major group of semiconductor companies to reach a license agreement with IP Bridge for patents in IP Bridge’s extensive semiconductor patent portfolio. “The Broadcom group of companies are some of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, and we are pleased to have them as licensees,” said Hideyuki Ogata, executive manager of IP Bridge. “IP Bridge has dedicated significant resources to building a portfolio of over 700 worldwide semiconductor assets and these settlements reinforce the breadth and quality of our portfolio.”

 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan – a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 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. And our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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. (Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, President Shigeharu Yoshii) (IP Bridge) announced that Satoshi Konno, Managing Director for Innovation Business has been named as the world’s leading IP strategists (IAM300) operated by the UK-based Intellectual Asset Management (IAM). In the list, top 300 IP strategists who have been globally active and highly respected in IP-related business fields, have been named. “As mentioned by IAM, IP helps to drive the 21st century economy and the importance of IP strategists will be increasing dramatically. I am honored to be named on the list as this means our strategic IP business has been greatly appreciated,” says Satoshi Konno.

 

IAM’s Press Release

Profile of Satoshi Konno

 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan – a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and 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 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. And our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents 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.