Strategic Legal Thinking for IPR Dependent Enterprise-the 'Five Rings' Method

摘要

"When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves you will not see any of the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of the leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there" (Takuan Soho, Fudochishinmyoroku).As a general rule, those most closely involved in the discovery and development of new technologies rarely have time to become fully appraised of the legal basis for the broad range of rights generally referred to as intellectual property rights (IPR), their extent or even how such rights are acquired or best exploited.