August 13, 2021 Fourth New Business Strategy Seminar for the Beyond 5G Era

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will sponsor the fourth new business strategy seminar for the Beyond 5G era. This seminar is an initiative of the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center (co-headed by MORIKAWA Hiroyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and YANAGAWA Noriyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo).

1. Purpose

On December 18, 2020, MIC launched the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center (co-headed by MORIKAWA Hiroyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and YANAGAWA Noriyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo). The purpose of the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center is to strategically acquire intellectual property and standardize with the participation of major industry-academia-government players toward the Beyond 5G era.
The Center encourages private companies and universities to promote the formation of markets and new market entry proactively and strategically by making full use of intellectual property and standardization, the development and social implementation of innovative technologies and services. Therefore, we will support these efforts, provide reference information, provide a place for collaboration, and provide dissemination and enlightenment.
As part of the efforts of the Center, the fourth new business strategy seminar for the Beyond 5G era will be held for corporate managers, IP department managers, international standardization and R&D department managers, researchers, etc.

2. Summary of fourth Seminar

1. Venue: Online (the URL will be provided to those who register)

2. Participation fee: Free

3. Organizer: Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center

4. Co-organizer: Planning and Strategy Committee, Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium

5. Overview

Amid major changes in industrial structure, the environment surrounding standards and intellectual property, which are the basis for innovation creation, is undergoing drastic changes. With the increasing importance of SEPs* in developing the European industry, the European Commission has taken initiatives to involve experts and stakeholders. These initiatives include (1) The Action plan on IP (2020), (2) The EU SEP Expert Group Report, and (3) Five SEP Round Table Webinars, which have been held since the end of 2020.
This seminar will feature two speakers, Ms. Adriana Van Rooden, who has played a central role in these activities at the European Commission, and Mr. Ruud Peters, who has played a central role in the EU SEP Expert Group from a corporate perspective. They will talk about the issues surrounding SEPs in Europe and the direction of solutions and discuss hints on how Japan and companies should approach these issues.

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  SEPs: Standard Essential Patents

6. Speakers

1. Lectures

Lecture^*1 Ms. Adriana Van Rooden

IP Policy officer EU DG GROW (* The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

Lecture^*2 Mr. Ruud Peters

CEO at Peters IP Consultancy B.V. (Former Head of Intellectual Property, Philips)

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  Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for lectures 1 and 2.

2. Moderators

FUTAMATA Toshifumi

Chair of SEP Study Group/Visiting Senior Researcher, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo

HIDAKA Seiko

Lawyer in the UK/Counsel Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

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  After lectures 1 and 2 and the Q&A session, the panelists will discuss the issues that will emerge from the lectures and how they can be linked to issues in Japan and Japanese companies.