{"id":38832,"date":"2020-05-25T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=38832"},"modified":"2020-05-25T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T06:43:13","slug":"fujitsu-offers-free-access-to-intellectual-property-rights-to-support-covid-19-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/05\/25\/fujitsu-offers-free-access-to-intellectual-property-rights-to-support-covid-19-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujitsu offers free access to intellectual property rights to support Covid-19 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fujitsu Limited announced that as part of its ongoing efforts to mitigate the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will commit to the &#8220;Open COVID Pledge,&#8221; which promotes free access to participants&#8217; intellectual property rights for activities aimed at ending the global spread of the disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In committing to the Open COVID Pledge, which originated in the US, Fujitsu has declared that it will not assert its patents, utility models, or designs against individuals or entities for a certain period of time and will not seek any consideration or compensation for such activities. Fujitsu has also endorsed and declared its involvement with the &#8220;OPEN COVID-19 DECLARATION,&#8221; a similar initiative in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through its commitment to these pledges, Fujitsu will contribute decisively to an early end to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing free access to approximately 40,000 patents, utility models, design patents (including pending applications) related to the development of new drugs and patient care, and actively promote cross-industry utilization by companies and research institutions around the world in the spirit of global cooperation and human centric innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In committing to the Open COVID Pledge, which originated in the US, Fujitsu has declared that it will not assert its patents, utility models, or designs against individuals or entities for a certain period of time and will not seek any consideration or compensation for such activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7081,460,2727],"class_list":["post-38832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-covid-19","tag-fujitsu","tag-technology-adaption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}