Symposium

Employees Invention Forum

[Theme]	"Corporate Managment and Employees' Invention"
[Day & Time]	July 14, 2004 13:00 - 17:30
[Place]	Keiranden Hall
[Schedule]	13:00	Opening Address by Mr. Isamu Sojyo, Executive Managing Director of JIPA
	13:05	Lecture on “Legal issues about employees’ invention” by Mr. Minoru Takeda(TAKEDA LAW OFFICE)
	13:45	Lecture on “Handling of employees’ invention in the U.S. by Mr. J. Jeffrey Hawley(Eastman Kodak)
	14:15	Lecture on “Handling of employees’ invention in Germany by Mr. Udo Meyer(BASF)
	14:45	Coffee Break
	15:30	Panel Discussion: "How should the employees’ invention system be, towards the establishment of a “state based on IP” and strengthening of the international industrial competitiveness?" MC: Mr. Nobuyoshi Tanaka (Canon, Inc.) Panelists: Mr. Daisuke Tanida (Tanita Corp. ) Dr. Akira Goto (University of Tokyo) Dr. Toshiya Watanabe(University of Tokyo) Mr. J. Jeffrey Hawley(Eastman Kodak) Mr. Udo Meyer(BASF) Mr. Takashi Sawai(NTT, Policy Project leader of JIPA)
	17:45	Closing Address by Mr. Yasuo Sakuta, President of JIPA
	17:50	Closing