A Conference in Conjunction with the 25 th Annual Meeting of the Trilateral Patent Offices New Challenges For Trilateral Cooperation November 8, 2007 FUJITSU LIMITED Masanobu Katoh
Roadmap Global business activities of Fujitsu Activities of Trilateral Patent Offices New technologies and new business models Intellectual property issues in new business models Closing 1
Global Scale, Local Presence The Fujitsu Group covers the globe 161,000 employees worldwide (62,000 outside Japan) Sales and service operations in more than 70 countries Globally integrated product development operations Platform solution centers in eight countries for customer system Manufacturing in Japan, Asia, Europe and North America 2
Increasing our capability to provide global services 3
Breadth of technologies IC card Invisible sensor Invisible communication IPv6 GMPLS Information appliance WLAN Traffic engineering Mobile Seamless roaming Fuel cell RFID Task computing Semantic Web Personalization Mining Large scale simulation Computing Network Hot spot Voice recognition & synthesis Biometrics authentication XML Organic server Organic storage Blue tooth Human interface (real world) Digital paper Plasma tube array Digital paper High speed TCP/IP Photonic network WDM Kiosk terminal Ultra large-area display SALE OFF Digital paper advertisement 4
Technology value chain Research Institutes Network Devices Materials New materials LSI Systems HDD Solutions Photonic Wireless Server Storage PC Value creation for ubiquitous networking through collaboration with partners Web services ITS Security Universities Companies 5
Fujitsu s Global R&D for Core Technologies Our global R&D organization integrates Fujitsu Laboratories cuttingedge research with applied technology and product development across the Group. Over 1,500 basic technology researchers in Fujitsu Labs in Japan, US, UK and China Integrated development with Group companies around the globe Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. 6
Open Innovation Research Institutes PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) France Telecom Fraunhofer Institutes etc. Universities Japan US University of Tokyo Tokyo institute of Technology Waseda University University of Maryland MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology University of California Carnegie Mellon University Europe China Munich University of Technology University of Cambridge Peking (Beijing) University Shanghai Jiao Tong University 7
Example of open innovation Four party joint research for Chinese learning assistance system with Waseda Univ. & Peking (Beijing) Univ. FRDC ( Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. ) PKU-Fujitsu Joint Research Center of Information Science and Technology established in 2004 PKU(Peking Univ.) Established in 1998 Fujitsu Lab. Blanket Tie-up in 2003 Cooperative Education Research Institute in 2003 Waseda Univ. 8
Fujitsu s Global Patent Applications From Fujitsu Limited s2007 Intelectual Property Report 9
Globalization is the key FUJITSU strongly supports harmonizing activities of Trilateral Patent Offices. Standardization of patent application forms Sharing of search and examination results Patent prosecution highway Harmonization of patent laws and procedures 10
The New Challenges Emerging Technologies - MashUp of Web Services Anyone can create a new web service by combining (mashing up) data and applications from outside web services. MashUps have had positive results in commercial contexts, such as in SaaS (Software as a Service). Wisdom of Crowds - Aggregation of information in a group of independent people leads to better results. 11
MashUp of Web Services from to Y Country β Transportation search destination information map Hotels Hotel Sun Hotel Moon Hotel Mercury Mapping search DB User A train 1 Hotel DB data ask Hotel search DB Country γ How to get there X station station Y 8:00 train 1 1330 $100 Map Transportation Hotel Original App. Country α - Users are not required to make all applications or databases. - Users ask appropriate web services to search data or to provide functions. 12
MashUp Published for Reuse from to Y destination information map Hotels Hotel Sun Hotel Moon Hotel Mercury Mapping search User A Map DB Transportation Hotel Original App. Transportation search DB Hotel search DB Published for reuse How to get there Weather X station station Y 8:00 train 1 1330 $100 User B Map Transportation Hotel Weather New App. Map Transportation Hotel - New functions can be added to original application. 13
Users create new services New service User New service User Service New service User New service User 14
Users create new services New service User Claims Intellectual Property Rights New service User Service New service User New service User 15
Questions 1. Who Owns What In This New Model? How Do We Allocate Rights? (1) Do we rely on open licensing of IP rights, like Open Source Software or Creative/Patent Commons? Standards Organizations? (2) Can contracts solve all questions? Can they be standardized globally? Are these contracts enforceable against all users? (Douglas v. TalkAmerica) 2. Workable business schemes (1) How do we make money? (2) If standards are used, how do we establish a RAND royalty? 3. Risk of Infringement (1) Who should bear the risk of infringement? (Fox v. Cablevision, SCO v. IBM) (2) What is the scope of secondary liability? Scope of secondary liability varies in different countries. (MGM v. Grokster) 4 Jurisdictional questions (1) Location of server or location of user? (Yahoo France) (2) Will same activities in different countries create different liabilities? 16
Closing We are now facing new challenges. They are not easy to solve. We have to review whether the current intellectual property system is working properly and solving all questions. Trilateral Cooperation can help find solutions by striking the proper balance between acceleration of innovation and the rights of all stakeholders. 17
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