According to the annual survey conducted by the internationally renowned IP magazine Managing Intellectual Property, we have been elected every year by worldwide firms as one of the most superior patent firms in Japan. As well in surveys done by other agencies, we have climbed global rankings as an excellent patent firm with exceptional practitioners, receiving extremely high evaluations from our clients.
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We support the intellectual property strategy of clients with a strong team of experts in all areas of specialization, including electronics, machines, chemistry, fibers, pharmaceutics, trademarks, design, and searches. Many of our members have experience as scientists in industry as well as in patent and trademark application drafting.
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Our firm assists clients all over the world with IP matters in Japan.
We make an effort to send several representatives from our firm to annual international IP-related meetings held in various countries (APAA, INTA, etc.) in order to coordinate and exchange information with patent attorneys from around the world.
Our office is also equipped to file our applications electronically via the Japanese Patent Office's electronic filing system. This allows us to complete the application process instantaneously and immediately report back to our clients with application numbers.
As of April 1, 2022, “multi-multi claims” as they are called are no longer accepted in the patent applications filed on or after given date. A multi-multi claim is a multiple dependent claim, that is dependent on at least one other multiple…
Given that the Governor of Gifu prefecture has declared prefecture’s own “State of emergency”, Hiroe and Associates Patent Office will implement following infection prevention measures in order to further cooperate with the prevention of in…
The revised Design Law will be enforced on April 1, 2020. Outline of the revised design law is as follows: Duration of the rights revision Duration of the rights will be 25 year from the date of application for design registration Re…
