Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting of the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters at the Prime Minister’s Office.
During the meeting, members of the Intellectual Strategy Headquarters exchanged views, before approving the Intellectual Property Promotion Plan 2014.
Based on the discussions, the Prime Minster said in his address,
“Today, we approved the Intellectual Property Promotion Plan 2014.
This plan contains revisions to the employee invention system that make it possible for employee inventions to belong to corporations and includes provisions on the strengthening of trade secret protections. I would like to begin making the necessary legal amendments immediately. Additionally, I would like to promote the overseas expansion of excellent Japanese content and work proactively toward building up the Japan brand. 
In order to properly reflect these various intellectual property measures in the growth strategy, which will soon be revised, and to make Japan a world-leading intellectual property-based nation, I would like to boldly and swiftly implement the necessary legal amendments and reinforce Japan’s intellectual property system.
I would like to ask for the continued cooperation of everyone in attendance to promote the various measures cited in the Intellectual Property Promotion Plan 2014.”