Intellectual Property Rights

Policy for Intellectual Property Rights

Sumitomo Riko values "Manufacturing" the most. To that end, we place it at the highest priority to prepare suitable development environment through the intellectual property rights, rather than their direct profitability, in order for our engineers to concentrate on their development tasks.

■ Patent Application and Prosecution Activities

Our Intellectual Property Department is constantly upgrading its knowledge and skills aiming at solid patent applications and prosecutions to avoid our developed products being imitated by any other companies.

■ Utilization of Intellectual Property Information

We support our development system extensively by utilizing the various intellectual property tools efficiently for collection of necessary information to develop new products.

■ Respect for Intellectual Property Rights of Other Companies

We are committed to the Sumitomo Spirit of "Banji-nissei ^*1", "Shinyo-kakujitsu ^*2", and "Fusu-furi ^*3" and act with sincerity, respecting and not infringing upon the intellectual property rights of other companies.

*1: Do your sincere best, not only in business, but also in every aspect of your life.
*2: Place importance on integrity and sound management.
*3: Do not act rashly or carelessly in pursuit of easy gains.

Patent Release Approach

Sumitomo Riko carries out patent release approaches for the purposes of social benefit, co-creation and improvement of the morale of the inventors. These approaches include social gatherings hosted by local governments or financial institutions, at which we demonstrate our patented technologies for small and medium-sized businesses.