The
Japan Patent Office (JPO) has chosen ten start-up corporations eligible to
receive support in order to facilitate the use of their intellectual property, in,
as the JPO prefers to call it, a “mentorship” program. The JPO will coordinate separate
meetings over a three-month period with these companies in order to determine how
to best use (i.e., licensing, collaborations with both domestic and overseas corporations,
etc) their existing IP rights to further business and the development of
technology and potentially obtain further IP rights. In essence, the JPO will
be working with these start-up corporations to develop a domestic and a
possible global marketing strategy for each company’s present and potentially future
IP.
This
is the first round of what is hoped to be a continuing cycle of what is
intended to be a successful means of identifying and assisting venture
corporations and start-ups which generally have less experience and financial
resources necessary to initially promote their IP. A second round of
submissions is currently underway with an application closing date of September
1, 2019. It is anticipated that further rounds will be announced in the future.
The
first round saw over 60 start-up corporations submit applications for this IPAS
mentorship. The 10 corporations selected are listed below and cover a diverse
field of research areas including AI, semiconductors, pharmaceutical, medical
and nutriceutical research, genome editing, etc.
At
present the JPO has created a separate webpage (IPBASE, at present Japanese
language only. https://ipbase.go.jp/public/startupxip.php)
which will detail the progress of this program and other programs (mentors)
which support start-ups and venture corporations. Please contact us at (ariga-foreign@ariga.co.jp) if you
require an explanation of the IPBASE webpage.
Ariga
will provide updates for each cycle of this program indicating the trends and a
list of the selected corporations and their areas of research, in addition to announcements
of further rounds during which start-ups and venture corporations wishing to
partake in this program may submit applications.
|
Company |
Area of
research |
|
A*Quantum Inc. |
Quantum computing |
|
AISing Ltd. |
AI algorithm-containing
machinery |
|
Braizon Therapeutics, Inc. |
CNS pharmaceutical
research and development |
|
LeapMind Inc. |
Deep learning software and
hardware |
|
MediGear Intl Co. |
Development of cancer
therapies |
|
Metabologenomics, Inc. |
Development of
personalized nutriceutical based health care |
|
Photo Electron Soul, Inc. |
Electron beam generators
using semiconductor photocathodes |
|
Pi-Crystal, Inc. |
Single crystal organic
semiconductor technology |
|
Setsuro Tech Co. |
Genome-edited mice using electroporation |
|
Spacelink Co., Ltd |
Capacitor development |
More
general information and additional information regarding the corporations
selected in the first round of IPAS are available below.