On September 14, 2021, the 204th ordinary Diet session enacted the "Act for Partial Revision of the Patent Act, etc.".
In the future, the procedures will be improved in response to digitization.
The main decisions were as follows.
On September 3, 2021, the JPO added 10 new cases to its list of the most recent cases.
On September 14, 2021, the JPO released a list of 20 companies that will be supported by the IP acceleration program "IPAS2021," which aims to accelerate the growth of startups in terms of both business and intellectual property.
This year, IPAS received applications from 104 companies, and 20 companies were selected through document screening, interview screening, and presentation screening.
Spiber Corporation (Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture), a developer of new materials with low environmental impact, has raised 34.4 billion yen from the Carlyle Group, a U.S. investment firm, and others.
One of the largest single funding amounts for startups in Japan.
This time, by combining the issuance of new shares with "securitization of business value," in which funds are raised by backing intangible assets such as intellectual property, the company succeeded in raising a large amount of funds.
On September 8, 2021, Fujitsu Limited launched the FUJITSU Digital Laboratory Platform SCIDOCSS, a service that allows users to search for patents in the fields of chemistry, metals, and electricity.
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