Welcome to Murakawa IP Lab!

My name is Kazuo Murakawa, a professor of Graduate school of Intellectual Property (IP), Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT). I am a doctor of engineer and professional Engineer of Japan. My jobs in OIT are professional education and research on IP and technical standards, and IP utilization, now. Before coming to OIT, I worked for NTT and NTT east. At that time, my major was EMC measurements and mitigations, and lightning protection for telecom installations.

I believe intangible assets like as IP are becoming more and more important for business areas. Because tangible assets for instances, hardware and software, business models are easily copied by the third party, so they should be protected by IP rights, know-how and IP strategies. As you know, IP rights have strong power to exclude infringers by injunction and claims damages. If you have a good IP, you have chances for business collaboration and to receive investments. Our graduate school will provide you many opportunities for obtaining IP professional practical skills and have many options for classroom learning and online learning. We can provide more than 60 subjects including IP laws, IP management, IP strategy and so on.

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