Risk of Intellectual Property Infringement and Difficulty Securing Rights
First written in FY2021. 1 of 2 entries say "Mitigated", first in FY2022. Latest entry: FY2022.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 4 of 43 companies on the "Worse" side.
14 other companies' latest entry also says "Mitigated".
- FY2022MitigatedAnnual report
「The Group registers necessary intellectual property rights, including trademark rights for its services, and investigates and responds, in cooperation with specialists and to the extent possible, to the possibility that the Group may infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties.」
In addition to its previous closed strategy, the company explicitly identifies registering necessary intellectual property rights and investigating potential infringement of third-party rights in cooperation with specialists as measures. - FY2021First statedAnnual report
「In the market for cloud-based services such as those provided by the company, the disadvantages of disclosing proprietary non-public technologies and know-how through patent applications are considered significant. By contrast, the benefits of providing proprietary services by using internally developed programs and know-how in its own services while managing them as confidential information are considered greater. Accordingly, the company has deliberately adopted a closed strategy of not filing patent applications.」
The company identifies the possibility of infringement by third parties and difficulty obtaining legal protection as risks associated with its policy of not filing patent applications.