SERVICES AVAILABLE


Acquisition of Intellectual Property Rights
Patents & Utility Models
- Invention mining/harvesting
- Patent searches (domestic & foreign)
- Patent application filing (domestic & foreign)
- Prosecution, Appeals against Decision of Rejection, Litigation against Appeal/Trial Decisions (domestic & foreign)
Designs
- Consulting design filing strategies that leverage partial designs & related designs
- Design searches (domestic & foreign)
- Design application filing (domestic & foreign)
- Prosecution, Appeals against Decision of Rejection, Litigation against Appeal/Trial Decisions (domestic & foreign)
Trademarks
- Consulting on brand strategies
- Trademark searches (domestic & foreign)
- Trademark application filing (domestic & foreign)
- Prosecution, Appeals against Decision of Rejection, Litigation against Appeal/Trial Decisions (domestic & foreign)
Other
- Consulting on integrated IP strategies for enhancing enterprise value
(e.g., consulting on comprehensive IP protection strategies not confined to specific jurisdictions, such as complementing patents with design registrations, brand strategies using both design & trademark protection, etc.)
Challenging Third-Party Filings/Rights
- Third-Party Observations, Oppositions, Trials for Invalidation, and Invalidity Opinions (domestic & foreign)
- Trademarks: Trials for Cancellation for Non-Use, Trials for Cancellation for Unfair Use (domestic & foreign)
Enforcement of IP Rights
- Infringement Opinions (domestic & foreign)
- Warnings/Cease-and-Desist communications (domestic & foreign)
- Infringement litigation (domestic & foreign)
- Customs injunction procedures (domestic & foreign)
- Anti-Counterfeiting measures (domestic & foreign)
Other
- IP licensing negotiations
- Consulting on employee invention regulations/policies
- Consulting on copyrights
- Consulting relating to the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations
- In-house seminars on IP for employee awareness/training
Some of the services above are provided in conjunction with affiliated Soei Shitara IP Law Firm.
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