Nov 27, 2019
Asamura Patent Office welcomed both members of Shanghai Intellectual Property Services Association
(Shanghai Patent Attorney Association) and members of Association for the Promotion of International Trade (APIT) to a two hour meeting of the Japan-China Intellectual Property Exchange Association held in our office with consecutive interpretation in Japanese and Chinese.
The meeting started with one of our attorneys giving a lecture on the type of research Japanese professors do and what they teach at universities.
The lecture was followed by a discussion on Akira Yoshino’s invention which won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Even though the invention was not patented outside Japan, the company was able to utilize the technology successfully thanks to the principle of independence of patents which states that patents applied for in the various countries by nationals of countries shall be independent of patents obtained for the same invention in other countries.
In addition, there were various AI discussions where Chinese participants mentioned the names behind some of the famous AI creations in China while Japanese members made examples of AI becoming an invention abroad. Both parties stressed the importance of learning how to protect data in the intellectual property field in this age when AI is becoming more data-driven.