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

Contents
Prefatory Notes
For the World’s Best IP Nation Takashi Tsuno	2
Remarks on the 10th Issue of Journal of Towa Institute of Intellectual Property Kimiaki Suzuki	4
Contributed Papers
Novelty in Academics Masaaki Miyatake	6
Intellectual Property Strategy for Supporting Business Stephen Haley	8
Implications of Brand Strategies Dr. Thomas Schlief	10
Thoughts on Brand Strategy George Anthony Smith, Jr.	12
Brand as Competitiveness Ea Roo Kang	14
U.S. Provisional Patent Application Strategy R. Burns Israelsen	16
Prior User Rights in a Balanced Patent System Uwe R. Borchert	18
Business and Intellectual Property Jing Zhiqiang	20
Brief Overview of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China Jin Dan	22
Intellectual Property Report from Thailand Masahumi Iguchi	24
Original Papers
The Suggestion of the IP Strategy Kitaru Kato	26
Avoiding a Language-dependent Description in Patent Documents Makoto Hoshi	28
Protection of IP as Trade Secret Takeharu Hirabayashi	30
Technology Leakage and Ethical Issues Kouji Ikeya	34
Practical Meanings of Two or More Partial-Designs with Inclusion Relation Kimiaki Suzuki	37
Special Contribution
Considering Practices of Judgement of Similarity of Trademarks on Item (xi) of Article 4(1) of Trademark Act Toshiaki Shimizu	50
Call for Papers:the 7th Annual Competition of Towa Nagisa Institute of Intellectual Property	63
Top 10 Companies Obtaining Patents, Design Patents and Trademarks at JPO in 2013	64
List of Titles of All Essays on Journal of TIP	65
15 Articles for Intellectual Property Management Takashi Tsuno	68