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Leaders of eleven top Japanese companies met on May 31, 2021 to plan a new cooperative corporation to coordinate nationwide advances in quantum technology and applications. The group intends to initiate a formal corporate establishment meeting this summer.

The participating leaders listed several goals, including information sharing among industry leaders, cross-industrial application research, and discussion of ethical issues, standardization, and intellectual property issues. Fujitsu’s representative, Shimada Taro, emphasized that the upcoming organization would emphasize cooperation among participants in applications of research advances, not only R&D.

The representatives mentioned their own strengths in fields like quantum cryptography and computing. They also mentioned a sense of urgency that Japanese corporations need to break free from sluggish application of their research and build a united front to compete successfully on the world stage.

The eleven institutions represented were JSR Corp., Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc., Tokyo Marine Holdings, Toshiba Corp., Toyota Motor Corp., NEC Corp., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT), Hitachi, Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, and Mizuho Financial Group. A member of the Prime Minister’s cabinet also attended the partly in-person, partly online meeting.

Hopefully, IP legal issues such as licensing and patent prosecution move ahead well in this attempt at nationwide teamwork.

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