Practice Area Part I
Patents
Prosecuting patent applications plays an important role in a patent firm. We provide our clients with services of domestic and international patent applications, as well as filing of amendments, arguments, and oppositions. We also assist some patent infringement case in providing legal advices with aspect for best interests of the clients.
[Main Technical Areas]
Electronic circuits, signal processing, data processing, control, communications, computer hardware and software, optical technology, semiconductor devices, semiconductor processes, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, business models, measuring devices, transportation machinery, office machinery, material processing machinery, precision machinery, heat engines, distribution, civil engineering and construction, organic and inorganic chemistry, biology, polymer, metals, foods, and plants
Trademarks
Obtaining trademark right is of great value to one's business. In obtaining trademark right, we provide services such as conducting trademark searches, consulting and filing trademark applications, filing arguments and amendments, and paying out registration fees, etc. We have prosecuted trademark applications in number more than the previous year with services such as filing arguments and amendments, filing oppositions, appealing (invalidation appeals, cancellation appeals, etc.), assisting infringement litigation cases, counseling regarding infringement etc., and conducting trademark searches.
Design Patents and Utility Models
We provide services related to conducting design patent and utility model searches, consulting, filing design patent and utility model applications, filing an argument or an amendment, and payment of registration fees, etc.
Practice Area Part II
Consultation about U.S. intellectual property law
In a patent litigation case in the U.S., which is said to cost several ten million yen to several billion yen, you will gain great advantage if you also have legal assistance in Japan for supporting your case, especially when the case has considerably importance to your company. With us, you will not have to bother with sending a letter overseas to a U.S. attorney who charge you with expensive attorney fees nor bother waiting for a reply from your U.S. attorney with worry of time difference and language barriers. Contrary to most typical Japanese patent firms, which sometimes raised so far attorney-client privilege problems in U.S. litigation cases, you will never see suuch attorney-client privilege problem if employing our firm. Our goal is to become a U.S. law firm closest to your home.
Based on legal training in a U.S. law school and experiences in U.S. law firms, we are confident in providing exceptional consulting services on U.S. intellectual property law. For example, we offer you with an updated online legal search by using the Patents Plus Library of WESTLAW (tm).
The database of WESTLAW basically covers all the information required for legal practices on U.S. intellectual property including U.S. patent law, U.S. trademark law, U.S. copyright law, regulations, federal court cases, supreme court cases, law reviews of U.S. law schools, and some trademark scans. We also provide services using WestClip where you can automatically obtain information (articles from newspapers, magazines, etc.) on rival companies. Contact us for more details on the Patents Plus Library.
[Main consultation areas]
U.S. patent law, U.S. trademark law and unfair competition law, U.S. copyright law, U.S. civil procedure, U.S. evidence law, Licensing and Contracts relating to Intellectual Property, International business transactions, International arbitration, ADR, and other U.S. laws.
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