Intellectual Property
At YASKAWA Electric, we make strategic use of our intellectual property rights, and protect our products, in order to maintain competitiveness of our new products and to ensure customer confidence.
Activities for Intellectual Property Rights
Starting from YASKAWA's initial ten patent applications fi led on September 28, 1917, the number of applications filed by YASKAWA Electric has exceeded 17,000.
Within the framework of the Strategic Corporate Management Trinity, the focus of our activities regarding intellectual property rights has shifted from quantity to quality, to enhance our intellectual property strategy and promote effective use of management resources.
We have been implementing a cycle of creating, protecting, and using our intellectual properties, to avoid product risks and promote product differentiation.
Framework for Promotion of Intellectual Property Rights
The framework for the promotion of intellectual property rights, consisting of the intellectual property division, which provides company-wide supervision, pro-patent promoters assigned to the R&D division, and the business divisions, has been established to systematically facilitate pro-patent activities.
Policy and Status of Intellectual Property Rights
Yaskawa Electric uses its intellectual property rights to protect its products around the world.
