About Tsubaki

Intellectual Property

Global Intellectual Property Strategy

Within the Tsubaki Group, we strive to create industrial property rights that lead to strengthening product competitiveness and to appropriately acquire, utilize, and maintain and manage such rights. In particular, in response to the globalization of our Group, we are advancing, in parallel, an inventory of rights and proactive acquisition of rights in the necessary countries and regions.
By strengthening activities aimed at avoiding risks of the company infringing others’ rights, and by responding proactively to infringements by others, the intellectual property division and business divisions work together to advance strategic utilization of industrial property rights, thereby striving to strengthen business competitiveness.

Tsubaki’s Basic Policy on Intellectual Property

1.Philosophy

We will strengthen business competitiveness by strategically creating and securing intellectual property, and by proactively protecting and utilizing it.

2.Basic Policy

Relevant divisions will work together to realize strategic intellectual property activities.
With a multifaceted perspective, we will advance product development that leverages high technical capabilities, as well as the creation and effective utilization of intellectual property.
The Intellectual Property Division will develop strategic intellectual property personnel and improve the intellectual property skills of the business divisions.
We will take firm measures against infringement by third parties of our owned intellectual property rights.
Each division will cooperate to realize an appropriate brand strategy.
We will respect third parties’ intellectual property rights and will not infringe them.

Established: February 2014
Revised: January 2021

* The term “intellectual property rights” refers not only to the patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, and trademark rights that come into effect through patent office procedures (collectively referred to as “industrial property rights”), but also to the rights that come into effect without the need for a procedure, namely copyrights and trade secrets (know-how).