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See below for 3 reasons clients choose us.

1. Extensive Experience in International Patent Prosecution
We have handled numerous international patent cases under PCT or through direct entry to Japan via the Paris route as well as trademarks.  In our experience especially in patent prosecution, inventions set out in claims which are not in a language other than Japanese often happen to have the problem in which the essence of the invention is not properly or sufficiently expressed in Japanese because of the differences in languages and patent systems.  We fully understand the above situation and have extensive experience in carefully expressing the essence of an invention in a claim under patent law and explaining it to the examiner or the trial examiner of the appeal board.

2. High Quality Prosecution Services Not Only at the Examination Stage But Also at the Appeal Stage
This is one of our strengths.  We have experience of overcoming rejection notices from the JPO.  Although it is impossible to overcome all rejection cases, it is not difficult to overcome rejections in Japan.  However, the more the scope of the claim is limited in many cases, the easier it is to obtain the decision to grant the patent.  At the same time, we also know that easy limitations are not always good for the client.  Further, lots of IP firms in Japan are reluctant to respond to Office Actions from the JPO which will be rejected.  Since the JPO announces rankings for decisions that are granted annually, they are afraid that their ranking will go down.
We, however, are not be afraid of that ranking position and will work hard in order to realize the intentions of our client until we obtain the decision to grant the patent.  We do not willingly hope for rejection as a matter of course.

3. Our Strongest Fields are Biological and Chemical Arts But….
For instance, treatment or diagnosis methods for humans are not patentable matter under Japanese law.  On the other hand, use claims are acceptable.  Secondary medical use claims are also patentable matter.  Further, business method patents can be obtained if the method falls under a specific type of claim.  We have sufficient experience and knowledge to obtain effective patent protection in Japan.
In addition to that, our professional service covers everything from prosecution for plant variety protection, orders for culture collection from NITE, the international depository authority in Japan, to copyright registration such as computer programs and trademark prosecution.