1. You can improve investment efficiency by focusing on technological development that you are good at.

If your company is attractive …

You can easily hire good people.
Employees leaving your company will be rare.

If your company is competitive …

You can push forward the negotiations with the trading partner in an advantage.
You can attract many customers.

What you need to be competitive.

You have to train employees including engineers.
You have to prevent your important technology from leaking.

So what is an attractive company for your employees?

A company that they can be proud of its technology and unique performance (A).
A company where they can feel own growth (A).
A company with a high salary (B).
A company with a well-developed welfare system (B).

So what is a competitive company?

A company that can lead the industry in a certain field, even if it is small (A).
That is, a company that can show the future vision of the industry (A).
A company that educates employees and gives them confidence (A).

If your company also works on the creation of industrial property rights …

Item (A) can be realized. This will make your company more competitive and eventually item (B) might come true.

2. Please make it a custom to systematize it.

Please make it a custom to systematize technical issues in daily work and ingenuity to solve those issues.

Then, this custom becomes an activity to create industrial property rights.

What can be obtained through the creation of industrial property rights.

External effect (playing a part in brand improvement)

Obtaining a patent enables license management of your technology.
License management is to prohibit or allow the implementation of your technology to other companies.
Also, by making effective use of trademark rights and highlighting the differences from other companies, your company will become a one-of-a-kind company.
Becoming the one-of-a-kind company in this field will strengthen the bargaining power with business partners.

Internal effect 1 (human resources development)

Strengthening technology

Objective understanding of your technology.
Clarification of technologies to be focused developing.
Improving analytical skills such as the foresight of engineers.
This patented invention creation activity improves the thinking ability of engineers such as problem finding ability, solving ability, and expressive ability.

Internal effect 2 (human resources development)

Improving technician motivation

The motivation of engineers is improved for the following reasons.
Through patent examination, the level of one’s own technology is examined by world standards.
Through patent examination, you can feel your own growth.
The name of the inventor comes to be known in the world through the patent gazette.
Engineers realize that the company has given them these opportunities.

3. Summary

Through patent creation activities, you can develop human resources and strengthen the brand power of the company.
Obtaining a patent is not difficult as long as you keep the main points.
For a company, it is better to attribute the patent right to the company.
What is an attractive company for engineers?

4. If you grasp the essence of an invention, it is not difficult to obtain a patent for that invention.

⇒ It is important what the issue can be solved by the invention.

New issue

Since it is an issue unknown to the industry, there has been no configuration to solve it. Therefore, a patent with a wide range of rights can be obtained.

Already known issue

Many configurations are already known to solve this issue. Therefore, it is hard to obtain a patent.

5. There is a possibility that a talented employee who is the inventor will leave the company.

It is better to obtain a patent in the name of the company.
⇒The company can continue to monopolize the technology even after the inventor leaves the company.
By patenting your own technology, you can clarify the line between your unique technology and the technology that is widespread in the industry.

6. A company that employees are attracted to will be a company that brings up employees into independent professionals.

A company that creates an environment in which the existence of its employees becomes known in the industry through patent applications or conference presentations.
Such companies are unlikely to leave their employees unless their salaries are very low.

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