FYI:
"Japanese state-run universities are prohibited from owning patents
since the universities are not considered corporate entities. Patents
for inventions created at state-run universities are either owned by the
government or the individual who invented the technology".
From: [Japan] Government to formulate intellectual policy strategy,
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020309wo12.htm,
posted at [IP-health]-listserv 3/10/2002
Cf. PIUG-list postings by Susan Cullen and Alan Engel "Japanese
Assignment Practices", 9/26/2001,
http://www.derwent.com/archive/piug/piug-2001/1025.html
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PS. Unrelated, from the same article:
Japanese patent officer examines 176 cases a year and it takes for
him/her 21 months for a case, compared with 76 cases and 13 months for a
USPTO patent examiner.
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