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Global SEP Trends and Future Prospects – Japanese Companies and SEP

The SEP Research Group will hold a closing event next Wednesday, 16 March 2022 from 09:00 to 12:00 (CET) under the leadership of its chairman Mr. Toshi Futamata (Institute of Futures Studies, University of Tokyo) and summarise the activities in 2021 in an open online workshop. Since last year, the research group welcomes a significant increase in participants: up to 200 experts from Japan, the USA, Europe, China, South Korea and India are expected to give presentations on international SEP trends.

For the European region, our partner Dr Christof Augenstein will give a 30-minute presentation on the latest European SEP industry trends in the third part of the workshop (the broadcast is expected to take place around 10:00 to 10:30 CET).

The entire online seminar will be held in English and will be hosted by ZOOM software. For free participation and registration, we will provide a registration link by 14 march at latest. When opening the workshop programme 2022 via Chrome, you can change the language into English by right-clicking. Please also note that the time in the overview refers to Japanese Standard Time (JST).

The event is supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Japan Patent Office and the Japan International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Japan.