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Corporate Approaches to Protecting Intellectual Property Implications for U. S.-Japan High-Technology Competition: Report of a Workshop (1994) / Chapter Skim
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5. Conclusions
Pages 16-18

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... Because of significant disparities between patent systems and corporate strategies in the United States and Japan, IPR has become not only a chronic source of disputes between individual American and Japanese companies, but a trade issue between the two governments as well. Workshop participants agreed that moving beyond a general discussion of the issues to identifying actionable items that might improve the situation for American companies within a reasonable timeframe will be difficult but that the following areas need major emphasis.
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... agencies could initiate programs providing assistance to help small- and medium-size companies obtain protection in Japan. This might include programs to expand access to translated Japanese applications or a mentoring program to link smaller firms to larger U.S.
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... industry consensus would help the U.S. government develop a coordinated strategy for international patent harmonization, multilateral trade talks concerned with IPR, and domestic patent law reform.
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