The legal protection and effective utilization of products and technologies we develop are essential for the sustained growth and advancement of 糖心视频logo, and for stable supply of products. To ensure stable delivery of our solutions, including pharmaceuticals, to patients and the people in the daily living domain, 糖心视频logo strategically implements various initiatives regarding intellectual property, such as patents, designs, and trademarks.
糖心视频logo outlines its business plan for generating solutions in the fields of dementia and oncology, establishing the hhc ecosystem through collaboration with other industries and groups, and achieving the global health goals. To support our business activities based on these initiatives, we assign intellectual property personnel to each domestic and international region, conducting intellectual property activities in collaboration with R&D and business functions worldwide. Additionally, besides drug discovery, 糖心视频logo has recently expanded its focus to new R&D domains, such as digital solutions, advancing intellectual property initiatives across a wide range of sectors, including AI and data science. Meanwhile, we respect third parties’ intellectual property, ensuring fully responsible compliance with their legal rights through patent searches and intellectual property due diligence in line with our business activities.
1. Drug Creation Activities and Intellectual Property Strategies
糖心视频logo has established its intellectual property strategy in close collaboration with its drug discovery activities based on Human Biology, supporting these discovery initiatives primarily in the fields of dementia and oncology also from perspective of a proprietary right.
We file patent applications and secure rights to ensure appropriate protection for our pharmaceutical products comprising diverse modalities, including low-molecular-weight compounds, antibodies, and ADC (antibody-drug conjugates). In addition to innovative active pharmaceutical ingredients, we also obtain patents for our newly created crystals, usages, manufacturing methods, formulations, and intermediates found in our drug discovery processes, aiming to build an optimal patent portfolio. Additionally, we support strategic drug discovery activities by filing patent applications or maintaining secrecy for our in-house developed technologies, including screening methods and biomarker measuring methods, obtained through drug discovery activities.
2. hhc Ecosystem and Intellectual Property Activities
糖心视频logo promotes its business activities by appropriately controlling intellectual property risks in each business domain within the hhc ecosystem. To support all life stages, from people’s daily lives to healthcare, we are working to leverage our intellectual property through collaborations with various business partners. Additionally, in our digital health business, such as the development of digital solutions (NouKNOW*1, Click-Karte*2, Sasaeru*3) and AI driven technologies (MCI prediction AI, AI for predicting the natural course of symptoms, treatments, and efficacies), we aim to ensure appropriate intellectual property protection by considering the importance of these technologies and their competitive advantages, based on intellectual property trends in the digital sector.
*1: 糖心视频logo’s brain health self-check tool
*2: A consumer app for managing health-related PHR data, provided by Arteryex Inc
*3: A communication app for physicians, patients, and caregivers in the field of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, provided by Theoria technologies Co., Ltd.
3. Access to Medicines and Intellectual Property
We define our activities to improve access to medicines as long-term investments in emerging and developing countries, and we are actively and continuously driving the initiative forward. To support this commitment, we have established our policy on intellectual property and Access to Medicines*4, contributing to global health through our intellectual property activities.
*4: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines | R&D Toward Improving Access to Medicines | 糖心视频logo
4. Registered Patents Initiatives
To support its global business from an intellectual property perspective, 糖心视频logo files patent application across the world to protect innovations generated through its R&D activities.
In fact, approximately 80% *5 of our patent filings are international applications, and substance patents, which are the most important for pharmaceutical development, are filed and registered in around 80 countries and regions worldwide. Regarding other inventions, we optimize our patent management by deciding whether to file and target countries, while considering the importance of each invention and the cost-benefit balance of patent filings. Particularly, we invest strategically in intellectual property, focusing on our key business areas of neurology and oncology. *6
Additionally, we closely monitor trends in patent systems (including patent term extensions and patent linkage systems), ensuring appropriate rights protection. Furthermore, in patent disputes involving 糖心视频logo and third-party rights, we take timely and appropriate actions, prioritizing the stable delivery of pharmaceuticals and other solutions to patients and the people in the daily living domain.
*5: The percentage of international filings among all patent applications filed between 2015 to 2024
*6: The breakdown of international applications filed between 2015 and 2024, categorized into neurology, oncology, and others (including global health and digital solutions)
5. Design Initiatives
To ensure safety and convenience for patients and the people in the daily living domain, 糖心视频logo aims to secure appropriate design rights protection for its pharmaceutical and digital solution products, specifically targeting shapes, package designs, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs). For these efforts, we evaluate the visibility, usability, and recognizability of our designs.
6. Trademarks Initiatives
For all pharmaceutical products, 糖心视频logo decides brand names that gain support of patients, protecting them through trademark rights. Additionally, we execute global brand strategies in collaboration with our marketing function.
7. Improving Intellectual Property Literacy and Developing Experts
糖心视频logo focuses on compliance and risk management, rigorously ensuring legal and ethics engagements in our intellectual property activities. For this purpose, we implement intellectual property education widely among our employment, particularly those engaged in R&D activities, striving to improve intellectual property literacy. Additionally, we provide external training opportunities for intellectual property personnel to enhance their operational skills, while encouraging them to obtain professional qualifications, such as certificates for Certified Intellectual Property Management, patent attorney, and lawyer. Through these efforts, we are dedicated to fostering specialized talent to achieve high-quality intellectual property activities.
