Intellectual Property Infringement and Rights Disputes
First written in FY2021. 2 of 4 entries say "Mitigated", first in FY2022. Latest entry: FY2025.
- FY2025MitigatedAnnual report
「With respect to third-party intellectual property rights in particular, the responsible department conducts monthly checks and provides employee training to prevent infringement before it occurs.」
Responses to the risk of intellectual property infringement were made specific through monthly checks by the responsible department and employee training. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「Accordingly, we have strengthened our system for managing intellectual property rights, including patent and trademark rights, and register rights to new technologies developed by us. In developing and selling products, we conduct infringement-prevention investigations into the latest technical and rights information to ensure that they do not infringe third parties' patent rights, trademark rights or other intellectual property rights, and take avoidance measures where the possibility of infringement is foreseeable, exercising every possible care to prevent infringement of third-party intellectual property rights.」
We continue to strengthen intellectual property rights management, register rights to proprietary technologies, and conduct infringement-prevention investigations and take avoidance measures. - FY2022MitigatedAnnual report
「Accordingly, we have strengthened our system for managing intellectual property rights, including trademark rights, and register rights to new technologies developed by us. In developing and selling products, we conduct prior investigations to ensure that they do not infringe third parties' trademark rights, patent rights or other intellectual property rights, and take avoidance measures where the possibility of infringement is foreseeable, exercising every possible care to prevent infringement of third-party intellectual property rights.」
The measures described were strengthening intellectual property rights management, registering rights to proprietary technologies, conducting prior investigations of third-party rights and taking avoidance measures. - FY2021First statedAnnual report
「However, if products and advertising materials handled by us, including advertising materials prepared before our systems were strengthened, infringe third parties' trademarks or other intellectual property rights, and we are consequently subject to substantial claims for damages or other compensation in or out of court, this could affect our operating results and financial position.」
The possibility of infringing third parties' trademark rights, patent rights and other rights, and facing claims for damages, was identified.