Basic Policy
"Committing to the highest legal and intellectual property standards to strengthen and protect our business." This statement represents Kyocera's basic principle concerning legal and intellectual property (hereafter IP) activities. Amid rapidly changing markets and evolving societal demands, the Kyocera Group holds an unyielding standard for IP principles and practices.
Organizational Structure
Global Five-regional Legal and IP System
Kyocera has established "Intellectual Property Management Guidelines" and assigned liaison officers to our main sites in order that Kyocera smoothly obtain, maintain intellectual property, and conduct licensing negotiation relating to our intellectual property. Working closely with our Intellectual Property Division, we are thrived to further protect and utilize our intellectual property for our business.
Kyocera has also established "Global Five-regional Legal and IP System" to proactively utilize the intellectual property of Kyocera Group and to manage intellectual property risks around the world. Under this System, we divide the world into five regions (Americas, Europe・Middle East・Africa, Japan・Korea, China, and Asia-Pacific) and work to coordinate and share information among Kyocera Group companies in each region.
Organization chart
Brand Management Committee
We installed a Brand Management Committee to establish a uniform corporate identity, promote awareness, and enhance the Kyocera Group's brand value.
"TORQUE," "Enerezza," " FOREARTH" "cocochical," are registered trademarks of KYOCERA Corporation
IP Activities Integrated with Business
Integration of Business and IP Strategies
With the Kyocera Group's multi-layered technological foundations, intellectual property is a core management resource that supports competitive advantages. In its IP activities, Kyocera focuses on incorporating IP strategy into business strategy as part of its missions and priorities. Using IP* landscapes, i.e., collecting and analyzing intellectual property information including information derived from patents held by other companies, which can then be utilized to inform business strategy and management decisions, we collaborate to incorporate and implement intellectual property strategies from the early stages of planning to strengthen each business.
Intellectual Property
IP Activities that Sustain Competitive Advantage
In a growing range of fields, the competitive advantages of superior IP and intangible assets hold the key to higher profits and market share. Having profit to reinvest allows us to continuously improve our technologies, further reinforcing our intangible assets including IP. This cycle represents the IP strategy supporting our business.
Competitive Advantages of Semiconductor Ceramic Packages
The above-mentioned cycle is reflected in ceramic semiconductor packages, one of Kyocera's core businesses. A patent analysis * for miniaturization technology shows that Kyocera's IP portfolio has grown in value continuously in recent years, and that Kyocera's IP and intangible assets give us an edge over other companies reflected as A, B, and C in the graph. This has supported our strong profit performance and market share, which are key to growth.
patent analysis : Analyzed using PatentSight from LexisNexis
Analysis of Miniaturization Technology Patents
Visualizing How IP Contributes to Business
Kyocera visualizes the results of its IP activities using a unique KPI known as "Value of Contributions to Business." This value is calculated based on 1) increased sales attributable to ownership of patents covering our products, 2) income from patent licensing, and 3) reduction of licensing expenditures due to crosslicensing and negotiations. We examine this value, not patent counts, each year as a key performance indicator (KPI), which provides a clear picture of the growth and economic value of our IP activities. Due to large transactions, FY2025 revealed significantly increased KPI.
Value of Contributions to Business*
Changes and target values shown above are calculated by setting the value of contributions to business in FY2023 as the standard value (=100).
The Number of Kyocera Patents
In order to maintain our technological ability to propose solutions to diversified markets, we are developing diversified management strategies while obtaining patents in Japan and overseas for various fields.
The Kyocera Group is working to strengthen its intellectual property, with the number of patents held in Japan and overseas increasing year by year.
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The total number of patents owned by the Kyocera Group and affiliated companies' as of the end of May 2025.
Use of Intellectual Property
Kyocera promotes the establishment of co-creation partnerships to make its technologies and intellectual properties available to society, and the Official Kyocera Group Intellectual Property website was established as a contact point. This website provides information about our concepts and technologies to help match us with partner companies that share our vision. We recently began a collaboration in the consumer products field with a partner company that resonates with our corporate stance.
Sharing HAPTIVITY®*, Kyocera' s tactile transmission technology, made it possible to help the partner company realize the comfortable user experience they were looking to achieve. This is a good example of the collaborative creation of value that Kyocera aims for. We continue working on the creation of new value with partner companies in a broad range of industries using our technologies and intellectual property to contribute to the advancement of society.
HAPTIVITY is a registered trademark of Kyocera Corporation.
Measures against counterfeit products
The Kyocera Group is implementing diverse measures in various countries around the world to protect customers from the harm caused by counterfeit products, and to enable product use with peace of mind. Kyocera monitors mail order web sites and distribution sites around the world looking for counterfeit products. Vendors selling counterfeit products are given warning or are reported to authorities and are asked to pledge they will no longer handle the products. They are requested to destroy stocks and reveal the names of their suppliers. Kyocera also uses hologram seals to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit products for some products, such as toner containers, making it easier to determine whether a product is authentic.
