Overview of the Intellectual Property Policy
PACIFIC CONSULTANTS CO., LTD. and its group companies (hereinafter referred to as PACIFIC CONSULTANTS GROUP) regard the services that are born from the knowledge and skills of its employees as important assets, and have established the "Basic Policy on Intellectual Property" to actively promote the creation, management, and utilization of intellectual property that makes use of these. Through collaboration with external parties and the development of an educational system, we will promote sustainable business development that utilizes intellectual property and contribute to solving social issues.
1. Strategic Intellectual Property Creation
As a driving force behind innovation in society and Producing the Future, we will proactively and strategically create intellectual property through the following initiatives.
- Actively develop original technologies and implement technological development using government and other funding.
- When it is determined that it is possible to develop people's lives and build more advanced infrastructure and innovation, we will actively approach the relevant parties to acquire intellectual property rights.
- Promoting the global expansion of intellectual property
- Building cooperative relationships with external parties based on fair and appropriate contracts, such as for outsourcing transactions and joint research and development
2. Appropriate management of intellectual property
We will implement the following initiatives and strive to properly manage intellectual property rights in the course of our daily business operations, the development of new technologies, and the acquisition of intellectual property rights.
- Respect the intellectual property rights of others and conduct necessary checks and investigations to avoid infringing them.
- Raising awareness of necessary technical skills and intellectual property-related laws through education and training
- Management of technology development costs and revenues, evaluation and analysis of technology development, planning, improvement and effective utilization of strategies
- We properly manage our intellectual property, including protecting necessary rights and responding to infringements.
3. Intellectual Property Management Promotion System
We will establish and operate an intellectual property creation scheme under an established internal system that will enable us to work towards acquiring intellectual property rights from the conception stage of intellectual property.
We will provide the necessary education and training to strategically create intellectual property, build cooperative relationships with stakeholders, and properly manage intellectual property, and we will strive to develop and secure the human resources who will drive the intellectual property management of PACIFIC CONSULTANTS GROUP.
Enforced in June 2025 (Reiwa 7)