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FY2025

February 2, 2026: Excellence Reward Recipient at the FY 2025 Intellectual Property and Intangible Asset Governance Awards
January 22, 2026: Selected as One of Clarivate’s Top 100 Global Innovators for the 15th Consecutive Year
January 5, 2026: NEC Selected as One of Clarivate’s “Top100 Global Innovators 2025,” CTO Nishihara Presented with a Trophy
December 16, 2025: Fumio Imoto, General Manager of Intellectual Property Management and Rule Making/Standardization Division Spoke at Daiwa Asset Management’s 5th Lingagement® Conference
December 10, 2025: Opinion Exchange Held with the Fourth Examination Department, Japan Patent Office
December 10, 2025: Akari Watanabe and Ryoya Taguchi of the Intellectual Property Portfolio Creation Department delivered a lecture at the Japan Patent Office during the Operational Patent Examination Training (OPET)
December 2, 2025: Fumio Imoto, Managing Director of the Intellectual Property Management and Rule Making/Standardization Division, speaks at IPBC Asia
October 16, 2025: At the Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) Intellectual Property and International Standardization Strategy Committee Planning Subcommittee meeting chaired by Corporate Senior Vice President Shigeki Wada, NEC exchanged views with the Japan Patent Office regarding the deliberations at the Patent System Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council.
October 16, 2025: Introducing Yuichi Nakamura, Principal Technical Officer, at the forefront of standardization and rulemaking
October 7, 2025: NEC introduces intellectual property activities via its official LinkedIn newsletter
Sep. 29, 2025: Publication of the NEC Integrated Report 2025
June. 24, 2025: Senior Standardization Professional Toru Yamada Receives Accomplishment Award from the ITU Association of Japan
June. 17, 2025: Mr. Fumio Imoto appointed Chairman of the Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Standardization General Committee
June. 13, 2025: Empowering Climate Solutions Through Co-Creation: NEC Transfers Patent to Singaporean Startup～Driving Innovation in Sustainable Forestry Investments with NEC’s Patent～
May. 22,2025: NEC’s Managing Director of the Intellectual Property Management and Rule Making/Standardization Division Meets with ETSI Leadership to Exchange Views on ICT Standards
May. 22,2025: NEC Facilitates the Global Expansion of a Startup Focusing on the Advanced Use of Energy-Related Data Through Intellectual Property Transfer

FY2024

Mar. 18, 2025: Corporate Senior Vice President Wada participates in the "Intellectual Property Committee of the Industrial Structure Council." In the 20th session, discussions were held on the Japan Patent Office's initiatives to create innovation(Japanese)
Mar. 13, 2025: NEC named to list of Top 100 Global Innovators™ by Clarivate for 14th consecutive year(Japanese)
Mar. 13, 2025: 24th JIPA IP Symposium held on February 12th – Corporate Senior Vice President Wada Service as Panel Discussion Coordinator
Mar. 13, 2025: CEO Morita Exchanges Opinions with JPO Commissioner Ono
Dec. 26, 2024: NEC Supports U.S.-based Startup Addressing Rare Disease Monitoring with Patent Transfer
Dec. 3, 2024: NEC Recognized as Part of the Asia IP Elite at IPBC Asia 2024
Nov. 21, 2024: Mr. Fumio Imoto, Managing Director of the Intellectual Property Management Division, Appointed as a Committee Member of the Patent System Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council’s Intellectual Property Committee
Nov. 12, 2024: Two NEC Members Reappointed as Vice Chairs of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Advisory Group and Study Group and Promote International Standardization
~ Contributing to Formulate International Standardization Strategy and to Promote Standardization on IoT, Digital Twin, and Smart Sustainable Cities~ (Japanese)
Nov. 12, 2024: Trophy presented to NEC’s Nishihara CTO in recognition of Clarivate "Top100 Global Innovators" award
Sep. 26, 2024: NEC Integrated Report 2024 released(Japanese)
July.31, 2024: Corporate Senior Vice President Wada moderates high-level dialogue at Keidanren’s seminar on international standards
July.25, 2024: NEC recognized among IAM’s Asia IP Elite 2024
July.25, 2024: Fumio Imoto, managing director of the Intellectual Property Management Division, featured in an interview with globally renowned IAM Magazine
June.28, 2024: NEC’s Toru Yamada Delivers Presentation on the Evolution of Digital Twins and Smart City Standardization at Interop Tokyo 2024
June.13, 2024: Providing strategic input to the Japan Patent Office Policy Advisory Committee discussions(Japanese)
June.13, 2024: Leading the Keidanren initiative on the “Proposal for International Standards Strategy toward Global Market Creation”(Japanese)
May.10, 2024: Mr. Konda, General Manager of the Licensing Department at NEC, gave a talk at the SEP (Standard Essential Patent) Global Workshop.(Japanese)
May.10, 2024: NEC receives the Distinguished Service Award for Design Management from the President of the Patent Office.(Japanese)

FY2023

Mar. 7, 2024: NEC named to list of Top 100 Global Innovators™ by Clarivate for 13th consecutive year
Dec. 15, 2023: NEC announces intellectual property strategy at NEC Innovation Day 2023(Japanese)
Dec. 6, 2023: NEC presents overview of intellectual property initiatives to startups at Business of IP Asia Forum (Dec. 6 to 9 in Hong Kong)
Dec. 1, 2023: NEC named among IAM’s 2023 Asia IP Elite(Japanese)

FY2022

Mar. 30, 2023: NEC attains top position in Japanese patent analysis for biometric ID and CX integration(Japanese)
Feb. 17, 2023: NEC recognized in “Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators” list for the 12th year in a row.

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