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

Contents
Prefatory Notes
Toward realization of a world-class technological superpower Takashi Tsuno	2
Response to “Society 5.0” Kimiaki Suzuki	6
The Intellectual Property-Related Activities for the Market Advantage Hiroyuki Okada	8
Contributed Papers
Considerations for New Patent Specifications Destined for the US Jacob L. Mangan	10
Prepare Early to Defend Your Patent at an Inter Partes Review James Wright	14
IP Strategies Must Evolve to Ensure A Long Business Life? Stephen Haley	16
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change world and company activities Uwe Borchert	20
Opt Out Strategy in Europe Dr. Anton Pfau	26
Recent changes in intellectual property practice due to progressing new technologies, and future direction Juergen Feldmeier	32
The IP Rights Conflict and Solution: The Key to the Trade Jing Zhiqiang	38
Let’s improve the organization and continue to strengthen intellectual property protection Wang Jingchao	40
A Study on Technical Attributes of Software Application Lu Changming	44
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Patent in Korea Ea Roo Kang	48
The Role of the Intellectual Patent Office on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Inhan Kim	52
The Fourth Industry and the Enforcement of Patent Kevin Kim	54
Protection of Trade Secrets of an Enterprise under Amended Trade Secrets Act Yao-Ting Huang	56
A Fast Lane for FinTech Inventions in Singapore Yvonne Tang	58
Dynamic Intellectual Property Policy in a Company Dr. Rajeshkumar Acharya & Girishchandra Tanna	62
Original Papers
To a Youth Leading the Intellectual Property Toshio Sonoda	68
The Action to Be Taken to the Trend　of Intellectual Property in China Toshifumi Shimada	70
Japan should transmit search results to the world by having direct orders for prior art searching from overseas! Yoshitoshi Tanaka	72
Current status of border control on intellectual property Masato Nagasaka	74
Philosophy and design Hiroaki Watanabe	76
Of the Drawing of a Patent Application (No.4) Kei Somaya	78
Relationship between “Jobs to Be Done” and Intellectual Property (No.2) Hiroaki Tsuno	80
Thinking Intermediate Procedures (No.6) Kenji Tsuboi	84
Roles and challenges of patent administration Nanae Sato	86
Patent Statistics	88
15 Articles for Intellectual Property Management	92