The Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators list recognizes the top 100 companies and institutions that consistently produce inventions demonstrating exceptional innovation capabilities. The selection is based on metrics such as patent influence, success rate, novelty, and global performance, calculated using Clarivate's global intellectual property and patent data covering patented innovations from the past five years. Launched in 2012, this award marks its 15th year. Nitto has been selected for the fifth consecutive year and the 13th time overall.

The activities of the Nitto Group are centered on building a robust intellectual property network and maximizing its revenue. Nitto’s intellectual property application strategy involves analyzing market needs and competitors’ trends and technologies; creating barriers to competitors by securing rights of its core business technologies; and maximizing earnings while extending the revenue period. Also, Nitto regularly holds 'Intellectual Property Roundtables' with the participation of executives, development leaders, and business managers. These meetings have become a well-established practice for discussing the intellectual property network and activities Nitto aims to pursue for its business. Nitto’s inclusion among the Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators is a recognition of these steady intellectual property activities at each phase leading up to commercialization and the integration of the intellectual property strategy with business activities.

The Nitto Group will work to create value “essential” to the world and contribute to the achievement of a sustainable global environment and prosperous human society.

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