This journal provides a forum for essays, papers and other achivements about intellectual property management.

Contents
Prefatory Notes
IP Business Strategies Diversifying Takashi Tsuno	2
Strategy of Opening Patent Kimiaki Suzuki	4
Contributed Papers
Open Patent Strategies George Anthony Smith, Jr.	6
Patent Strategies with Licensing Stephen Haley	8
Patent Licensing Policy and Further Options Uwe Borchert	10
Free Licensing – Pors and Cons Dr. Thomas Schlief	12
Freeing Patents and Effective R&D Zhiqiang Jing	14
Promoting Technological Progress by Freeing Patents Guo Fang	16
Profitable Sharing Ea Roo Kan	18
Freeing Patents and Coexistence Inhan Kim	20
US Means-Plus-Function Patent Claims R. Burns Israelsen	22
US Patentable Subject Matter: Abstract Ideas under the Recently Updated USPTO Guidelines Jacob L. Mangan	24
How to Benefit when Choosing the ISA Thomas Daub	28
E-commerce for IP business in China Jin Dan	30
Chaos at Thailand department of IP and Actual Thailand Economy Masafumi Iguchi	32
Shaping the Law on Registrability of Trade Marks in Singapore Dedar Singh Gill	34
Original Papers
Internal Priority, Priority under the Paris Convention (Notes of subsequent patent application) Kitaru Kato	36
Product-by-Process Claim in Japan Takeharu Hirabayashi	42
Utilizing Intellectual Properties in Open Innovation Satoru Hirano	48
Special Contribution
A Case Regarding Unclear Disclosure and Unsupported Claim Limitations Yao-Ting Huang	52
Prized Paper
The result of 7th Towa Nagisa Institute of Intellectual Property prize essay content	63
The management of agricultual, forest and fishery products and marine products as the intellectual poperty after Geographical Indications law implements -the Yamanashi wine as an example- Yusuke Kurihara	64
Patentmetrics in Japan	80
15 Articles for Intellectual Property Management Takashi Tsuno	84