Under the aim of strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights in order to support developing countries with the development of human resources who engage in the industrial property rights system, the Japan Patent Office (JPO) has been inviting trainees from developing and emerging countries of the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, and Africa, and conducting training programs for them in Japan.
From December 11 to 20, the JPO conducted Training Course on Managing IP targeted at professionals involving IP management at such as universities, R&D institutions, a total of 27 trainees from 14 countries attended the course. In this course, the trainees deepened their knowledge on the subject of efficient and effective IP management and utilization methods through lectures pertaining to industry-academia collaboration, technology transfer in Japan, etc.

Source: JPO