Medical AI, software & IP
Localized editions of our Japanese articles — general information, not legal advice.
![Part 3: Does a Patent Really 'Reach' a Medical AI Service? The Architecture That Decides [Paid]](/static/images/blog/fig/fig-medai-web-patent-strategy-3-p3-hero.png)
Part 3: Does a Patent Really 'Reach' a Medical AI Service? The Architecture That Decides [Paid]
Cloud teams routinely blur a system's national location with region selection and multi-region backups. A 202…
![Part 2: Can a Server Abroad Still Escape a Patent? Inside the Landmark Dwango v. FC2 Ruling [Paid]](/static/images/blog/fig/fig-medai-web-patent-strategy-2-cross-border-data-hero.png)
Part 2: Can a Server Abroad Still Escape a Patent? Inside the Landmark Dwango v. FC2 Ruling [Paid]
For decades, engineers assumed that hosting a server overseas placed a system beyond the reach of Japanese pa…
Part 1: Inference in the US, Database in Europe — Can Japanese Patent Rights Reach "Borderless Medical AI"?
Just by choosing an AWS region, the frontend, AI inference, database, and backup end up in separate countries…
![Why Only a "Handful of Companies" Reaped Enormous Profits from mRNA Vaccines —— How Patent Strategy Decided Pharmaceutical Supremacy [Paid]](/static/images/blog/ai/mrna-dominant-design.png)
Why Only a "Handful of Companies" Reaped Enormous Profits from mRNA Vaccines —— How Patent Strategy Decided Pharmaceutical Supremacy [Paid]
How did the mRNA vaccine oligopoly come about? An IP-perspective explanation covering dominant design, divisi…
Playing the piano pedal with your head — inside the bFaaaP Open Source Project
bFaaaP is an AI assistive pedal that achieves piano sustain from head motion instead of the foot. A friendly …
Part 1: The Big Picture and Five Questions
We present the big picture of medical AI web services that are increasingly being put into practical use in t…
Part 2: The Current State of Representative Services (Ambient Documentation, Triage, Pathology, and More)
An overview of representative examples in ambient clinical documentation, patient-facing agents, imaging tria…
Part 3: Market Size, Challenges, and Considerations for Web App Development
Market size and revenue models, challenges such as safety/liability/privacy, and key points for web developme…
Part 4: IP Strategy — Patents and Software Licensing (Pitfalls Such as AGPL)
Beyond patents, we organize a list of licenses such as MIT/Apache/GPL/AGPL and their constraints. The need fo…
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