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APPENDIX 3
INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRES
GENERAL QUESTIONS – CORPORATE LEVEL
Below is a summary of general interview questions addressed to best-practice companies
regarding Intellectual Property Management, in order to set the stage for the interview
series.
Q1. What strategies and methods in general are now used by your company for the
economically successful development and commercialization of new technologies?
Q2. What are your managerial experience and philosophy regarding successful versus
failing attempts to commercialize new technologies in your company?
Q3. In your company, what is the role of patenting and intellectual property rights in the
development and commercialization of new technologies?
Q4. Which patenting and licensing strategies and tactics have been commercially
successful in your company and why?
Q5. How are patenting activities organized and managed throughout your company?
Q6. How is technology scanning organized and managed throughout your company and
what is the role of patent information in that connection?
Q7. In your opinion, how could the commercialization of new technologies be further
improved in the future?
GENERAL QUESTIONS IN JAPAN – NATIONAL LEVEL
Q1. Which are the broad features of the historic developments of Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) protection by law in Japan?
Q2. Which are the current important issues regarding IPR protection in Japan?
Q3. Which are the main differences between Japan, on the one hand, and Europe and
USA, on the other, regarding IPR legislation, especially patent laws, and prospects
of harmonization?
Q4. What are the causes and consequences of the current US - Japan relations, termed
"patent war" by the press?
Q5. What are the likely future developments regarding broad cross-licensing, patent
pooling etc. among large companies?
Q6. What are the likely future developments regarding IPR protection of basic research
and science, and university research?
Q7. What is the role of IPR protection for small firms and independent inventors in
Japan?
Q8. What are the present legal situation and future development of trade secret
protection in Japan?