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Takayuki Ogasawara, Intern Patent Department
At a Nena concert in Japan, I got particularly enthusiastic about her 99 balloon song. It was then that I started to take an interest in Germany, and I wanted to get to know the country by working there.
A German friend who is working with Heidelberg Digital in the U.S. recommended that I apply with Heidelberg in Germany. I completed my business studies at a university in Japan, but already during my studies, I often attended German language summer courses in Germany. I always wanted to use my knowledge of German at some stage in my working life. An internship with Heidelberg was the perfect opportunity to do so, above all because it gave me the possibility to extend my special know-how and experience while working in an international company.
I worked in the patent department of Heidelberg. The focus in my internship was on the patent activities of Heidelberg in Germany and Europe respectively as compared with those in the U.S. and Japan. Within this context, I worked out a statistical analysis covering the last 20 years.
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Many patents in the printing press field are connected with Japanese companies. And in other departments, too, there have been regular contacts with Japanese companies in which I could support the Heidelberg staff. Once I was even present as an interpreter for a purchase order contract.
In Germany, it's quite often the specialist who is in demand. In Japan, on the other hand, it's much more the "all-rounder". I was pleased that I also had the chance to get to know other fields within Heidelberg: new tasks, new people - and, of course, new German words as well. You only seldom can see different departments and gather such diverse experience in practice.
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