Areas of Practice

We provide consulting services to help locate IP rights applicability and educating clients about their prospective intellectual property rights, enlightening information, expert opinions, and general services regarding copyrights, contracts and litigations, as well as traditional services by patent firms, such as filing of applications.

Regarding filing and prosecution of applications in foreign countries, we will advise in conjunction with our affiliated local agents; concurrently, provide advice to both the client and our regional agent as case management experts. In addition, we provide various research services regarding intellectual property rights according to requests by foreign clients as similar for our clients in Japan.

Filing and prosecution of applications

We provide our services to file and prosecute patent, utility model, design and trademark applications to JPO. Regarding foreign patent applications, we have affiliations with law firms in the US, Europe, Australia, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Russia and Brazil.

Information provision

As explained above, we will provide the information provision services with reasonable cost upon consultation patent law. Sometimes, the information is filed with JPO to prevent other people, entities or competitors from being granted a dubious or overlapping IP rights. If necessary, the information is filed with JPO to prevent other people's patent application from being granted.

Expert opinions

We will provide expert opinions according to a purpose or request by a client, for example, from oral opinions or simple opinions to comprehensive expert opinions reflecting opinions by lawyers.

Copyright

A copyright may be the most familiar intellectual property right to us. We will consult about various copyright issues.

Contract/ litigation

We are capable of any requests regarding contract/ litigation on a comprehensive basis in cooperation with Miyake & Partners.