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RiZ Learning / Intellectual Property in Practice

Turn IP knowledge
into practical capability.

We design training around situations that actually arise in R&D and business, helping participants learn how to think about IP and apply it in practice.

  • In-house training
  • In person / online
  • Lectures / seminars

Training themes

Choose from eight themesto build the learning you need.

Each theme can be delivered on its own or combined with others. Content and difficulty are adjusted to the audience and purpose.

Open each theme to see sample training topics.

Select “View examples” on any topic that interests you.

01
IP BASICS

IP fundamentals

IP fundamentals for researchers and engineers
Training for new employees and managers

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • IP fundamentals for researchers and engineers
  • IP training for new and early-career employees
  • IP for executives and managers
  • Employee inventions and internal rules
02
INVENTION & PATENT

Inventions & patent practice

Identifying inventions and invention disclosures
Filing, prosecution and rights acquisition

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • Patent practice that turns inventions into rights
  • How to identify and develop inventions
  • How to prepare an effective invention disclosure
  • How to read and respond to office actions
03
SEARCH & RISK

Patent searches & third-party rights

How to read patent publications and claims
How to assess searches and infringement risk

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • Reading patent publications and claims
  • Patent searching with J-PlatPat
  • How to think about third-party patents and infringement risk
  • Deciding when to file, request examination and maintain rights
04
GLOBAL IP

Foreign filings & international IP

How to choose filing countries and routes
Overseas business and IP risk

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • How to plan and manage foreign patent filings
  • What to confirm before filing overseas
  • How to choose where and how to file
  • IP risk in international business
05
CONTRACTS

Contracts & joint development

NDAs and joint-development agreements
Licensing and treatment of project results

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • Fundamentals of IP contracts
  • How to read an NDA
  • IP in joint-development and outsourcing agreements
  • License agreements and technology use
06
TRADE SECRETS

Know-how & trade secrets

How to choose between patenting and secrecy
Information control and preventing technology leakage

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • Patent it or keep it secret?
  • Fundamentals of trade-secret and know-how management
  • Internal practices for preventing technology leakage
  • Information control at exhibitions and plant visits
07
BRAND & CONTENT

Trademarks, designs & copyright

Protecting brands and product designs
Copyright, software and content

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • Trademark basics for protecting product and company names
  • Design-right basics for protecting product design
  • Practical copyright basics for business
  • Software, content and copyright
08
BUSINESS & IP

IP, business & management

Connecting IP activity to the business
Managing IP without a dedicated IP department

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TRAINING EXAMPLES

  • IP policy that contributes to the business
  • IP for startups
  • IP management without a dedicated IP department
  • Using patent information in management decisions
Illustration of discussing IP perspectives while reviewing a prototype and drawings

Custom-designed learning

Designed around your audienceand your challenge.

Rather than applying an off-the-shelf lecture, we tailor the themes, examples, exercises and timing to the participants and the purpose.

WHO Audience

Engineers / IP personnel / managers / executives

WHAT Challenge

What is happening in your organization now

HOW Format

In person / online / lecture

Naoki Sugai

Instructor

IP training groundedin the developer's perspective.

Drawing on long experience in corporate IP, Naoki Sugai has developed training materials and taught IP from the perspective of researchers and engineers. Depending on the topic, we can also coordinate with other appropriate instructors and specialists.

Naoki Sugai Representative Director, Riz Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. / Deputy Director, Riz International Patent Office
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