| June 1989 | Establishment of the Institute of Intellectual Property as an incorporated foundation Chairman Gaishi Hiraiwa (Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Ltd. (at that time)) |
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| March 1991 | Ichiro Kato (Chancellor of Seijo Gakuen (at that time) took up the post of Chairman |
| October 1993 | Establishment of the Washington D.C. Office |
| April 2003 | Establishment of a library |
| April 2005 | Nobuhiro Nakayama (professor at the University of Tokyo (at that time)) took up the post of Chairman |
| April 2011 | Transition to a general incorporated foundation in response to the new public interest corporation system |
| December 2002 | Establishment of the Association of Intellectual Property Education Chairman Yuji Tanahashi |
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| August 2003 | Change into a limited liability intermediate corporation |
| March 2004 | Implementation of the first Intellectual Property Test |
| February 2008 | Receipt of designation as a designated test agency for the "Intellectual Property Management Skills Test" from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare |
| July 2008 | Implementation of the first Intellectual Property Management Skills Test as a national examination |
| March 2009 | Transition to a general incorporated association |
| April 2016 | Inauguration of the Foundation for Intellectual Property as a general incorporated foundation through the merger of the Institute of Intellectual Property (a general incorporated foundation) and the Association of Intellectual Property Education (a general incorporated association) Chairman Nobuhiro Nakayama (honorary professor at the University of Tokyo) |
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