Intellectual Property

The Company regards intellectual property (IP) that has resulted from its R&D activities to be an important management resource underpinning SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group’s growth and profitability as well as efforts toward the maximization of corporate value. For that reason, SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group endeavors to secure strategic IP that supports its business activities, as well as to maintain and manage any acquired IP.
Meanwhile, we conduct periodic investigations to avoid infringing upon the IP rights of others, and take appropriate measures to avoid and prevent others from infringing upon the IP rights of SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group.
We have adopted the Patent Asset Index^™ (PAI), which benchmarks the strengths of patent evaluation and innovation, as an index, and are bolstering our focus on improving the quality of patents, under the next Medium-term Management Plan.

At each divisional company, the Intellectual Property, Business, and R&D divisions are in constant cooperation, striving to achieve prominence over our competitors based on the distinctive characteristics of their respective areas. In this way, we promote IP activities which link to the expansion and growth of our business.
At our Corporate Headquarters, we carry out unified planning and promotion of IP strategy for all Group companies, aiming to optimize their IP resources.

SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group has set up independent intellectual property divisions at its Corporate Headquarters and at each divisional company. This takes into account the Group’s divisional company structure and enables the Group to promptly engage in activities that are attuned to the business environment of each divisional company.
In addition, the activities of each Intellectual Property Division are regularly monitored by the R&D Committee, which holds discussions with top management.