Intellectual Property

Patent Attorney

About Patent Attorney

Patent Attorney is a specialist who helps to protect intellectual property including invention which is the achivement of creativity and imagination by law. Such a legal right is called "Industrial Property Right". You may be able to obtain Industrial Property Right or solve the conflict of Industrial Property Right by yourself. However, they require an extremely high level of technological knowledge about technology and law, and practical expertise.

Patent Attorney is nationally licenced especially for practicing a variety of intellectual property law and help to obtain Industrial Property Right and solve the conflict of Industrial Property Right.

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Principal Practice Areas

  1. Acquisition of Patent and Utility Model Right
    1. Having a good grasp of the technical content, and we decide which rights you should obtain, patent or utility mode.
    2. We examine how to obtain broad right.
    3. We conduct prior art searches when needed, and assess the patentability and effectivity.
    4. We prepare the documents for the description of technology and file at the JPO.
  2. Acquisition of Design Right
    1. We grasp the key features of design and examine how to obtain broad right.
    2. We prepare the documents for the description of design and file at the JPO.
  3. Acquisition of Trademark Right
    1. We decide which classification the product and the service you plan to use belong to.
    2. We assess whether the desired trademark is worthy of registration.
    3. We conduct searches whether similar trademark has already been registered or filed if needed.
    4. We prepare the documents for the description of trademark and file at the JPO.
  4. Response to Office Action

    5. Receiving Office Action (Notice of Reasons for Rejection) from the JPO, we investigate the issue and take the procedure to overcome the reasons for rejection.

  5. Demand for Trial

    6. When you are dissatisfied with the reasons to reject the application, when you want to invalidate other people's patent, when you want to cancel other people's trademark registration, we make the right judgement on the situation and demand an appeal trial corresponding to the respective purpose.

  6. Litigation

    7. When you are dissatisfied with the trial decision, we file suit for canceling trial decision with the court as proxy. In the infringement of right case, we alter the case to your advantage as proxy or assistant to lawyer.

  7. Expert Opinion, etc.

    8. We give expert opinions on the scope of invention, devisal, design and trademark rights, the invalidity of patent, etc. We request the JPO to give an interpretation as proxy when you want to ask for JPO views about the scope of right.

  8. Contract

    9. We act as proxy when making a contract regarding Patent right, Utility Model right, Design right, Trademark right, Layout of Semiconductor Circuits Exploitation right, Copyright and related rights, and unfair competition listed in items 1 to 9 of Article 2(1) of Unfair Competition Prevention Act (with regard to the unfair competition listed in items 4 to 9 of the same paragraph, only unfair competition that involves a technical secret). We also conduct a consultation for these matters.

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