Intellectual Property Activities

The Kurita Group promotes the appropriate acquisition, protection, and utilization of intellectual property, respects the intellectual property of others, and promotes intellectual property activities with aggressive and conservative views that contribute to management strategies.

The Kurita Group promotes IP landscape activities to utilize for management and business strategies by comprehensively analyzing not only intellectual property information but also non-intellectual property information, such as business and market information, and then identifying the current situation and making future predictions. The IP landscape initiative are progressing for use in various situations, such as formulating business strategies, creating new businesses, screening M&A candidates, and proposing candidates and methods for co-creation in innovation creation activities.

To maximize the use of its intellectual property, the Kurita Group promotes patent applications that not only result from research and development but also secure, maintain, and improve its competitive business advantage. In addition, from a global perspective, we are reviewing our patent portfolio and reducing business risks by preventing infringement of others’ intellectual property rights.

Through the deep cultivation of the fundamental technologies that support the Kurita Group as a technology company and the creation of new products, technologies, and business models, we have one of the highest numbers of patents in the domestic water treatment industry.

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