Our office has a legal headquarters, a patent strategy department (Patent Section 1 to Patent Section 16), a legal strategy department (Trademark Office/Design Office/Legal Office), a secretarial management department, a translation department, and a graphic department. It consists of a total of eight departments: the design department, the general affairs/accounting department, and the information systems department.
The business overview of each department is as follows.
Legal Headquarter
Patent Strategy & Utility Models Department
Legal Strategy Department
Administrative Department
Translation Department
Graphic Design Department
General Affairs and Accounting Division
Information System Department
Legal Headquarter
Our Legal Headquarters handles most dispute-related matters.
- ■ Litigation
- □ Suit against a trial decision
- □ Infringement suit
◇ Suit for damages
◇ Suit for injunction
◇ Suit for return of unjust enrichment
■ Appraisal
■ Arbitration
■ License negotiation
■ Contract
■ Copyright
■ Preventing unfair competition
■ Circuit layout of semiconductor integrated circuits
■ Import injunction certification/petition procedures
■ Variety registration
Patent Strategy Department & Utility Models Department
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■ Patent Division 1 |
■ Patent XNUMXth division |
◇ Patent application work
Interview with client, patentability determination, claim proposal, and specification preparation.
- ◇ Responding to Office Action
- Suggesting an Accelerated Examination, Drafting a Response to grounds for rejections, Interviewing the Examiner, Drafting a written opinion/an amendment, Filing an Appeal against Decision of Rejection, Filing a Suit to Cancel a Trial Decision.
- ◇ Right-Related Affairs
- Prior Art Searching (Domestic/International), Expert Opinion (Patentability, Possible involvement in an infringement), Submission of relevant publications (Information Disclosure), Requesting an Invalidation Trial, Requesting for an interpretation.
- ◇ Foreign Affairs
- Prior Art Searching, Drafting Specifications (Mainly for Applications through Paris Route and PCT Route), Suggesting a response to grounds for rejections, Communicating with foreign attorneys, Holding personal interviews, Requesting a re-examination (U.S.), Filing Reissued Patent Applications (U.S.).
Legal Strategy Department
(Trademark Division, Design Division, Legal Division)
Trademark Division
- ◇ Search(Domestic/International)
- Conference with clients, Searching based on data base etc., Analyzing registrability, Drafting a report
- ◇ Filing of Trademark Application(Domestic/International)
- Conference with clients, Analyzing/Specifying trademarks and designated goods (services), Scheming a strategy for application (Effective use of convention and treaty)
- ◇ Responding to Office Action(Domestic/International)
- Conference with clients, Analyzing/Specifying trademarks and designated goods (services), Scheming a strategy for application (Effective use of convention and treaty)
- ◇ Right-Related Affairs(Domestic/International)
- Analyses, Renewal Application (Application for Reclassification), Filing an Opposition, Requesting an Invalidation/Cancellation Trial, Recordal of transfer of trademark rights
Design Division
- ◇ Search(Domestic/International)
- Conference with clients, Searching based on data base etc., Analyzing similarity, Drafting a report
- ◇ Filing of Trademark Application(Domestic/International)
- Conference with clients, Specifying designs (Articles and Forms), Drawing forms (cooperate with Graphic Design Section), Scheming a strategy for application (Analyzing related design/part design)
- ◇ Responding to Office Action(Domestic/International)
- Suggesting a response to grounds for rejections, Drafting a written opinion/an amendment, Filing an Appeal against Decision of Rejection, Filing a Suit to Cancel a Trial Decision
- ◇ Right-Related Affairs(Domestic/International)
- Analyses, Requesting an Invalidation Trial, Recordal of transfer of design rights
Legal Division
- ◇ Technology Transfer Support
- ◇ Plant variety registration/agribusiness consultation
- ◇ Import-Export Suspension Support
- ◇ Semiconductor Circuit Layout Support
- ◇ Computer Program Registration Support
- ◇ Domain Name Registration Support
- ◇ Copyright Advisory
- ◇ Unfair Competition Advisory
- ◇ SME Support
- ◇ Intellectual Property Management Consulting
Secretary and Administrative Department
■1st Domestic Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/domestic cases)
■2st Domestic Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/domestic cases)
■3st Domestic Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/domestic cases)
- ◇ Drafting various kinds of documents to be filed with JPO
◇ Managing due dates of applications to be filed/Responding to search results, Inputting data for applications to be filed/Responding to search results
◇ Managing Annual Fee and others
◇ Communication with clients about procedures
■Internal and external business management office (Foreign clients/domestic cases)
- ◇ Drafting various kinds of documents to be filed with JPO
◇ Managing due dates of applications to be filed/Responding to search results, Inputting data for applications to be filed/Responding to search results
◇ Managing Annual Fee and others
◇ Communication with clients and foreign attorneys about procedures
■PCT Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/PCT application cases)
- ◇ Drafting various kinds of documents to be filed with the Receiving Office/WIPO
◇ Managing due dates of applications to be filed/Responding to search results, Inputting data for applications to be filed/Responding to search results
◇ Communication with clients about procedures
■1st Foreign Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/foreign cases)
■2st Foreign Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/foreign cases)
■3st Foreign Business Management Office (In charge of domestic customers/foreign cases)
- ◇ Drafting various kinds of documents to be filed with a foreign patent office
◇ Managing due dates of applications to be filed/Responding to Office Action, Inputting data for applications to be filed/Responding to Office Action
◇ Managing Annual Fee and others
◇ Communication with clients and foreign attorneys about procedures
■Business coordination office
Translation Department
■Translation of foreign patent application specifications (compatible with all technical fields).
■Translation of instructions to local patent law firms regarding office actions in each country.
■Translation of various contracts (license agreements, non-disclosure agreements, joint research agreements, etc.).
■Translation of litigation-related documents.
■Correspondence with patent law firms or clients in various countries.
■Other translations of legal and technical documents in general.
Graphic Design Department
■Creation of drawings for domestic patent applications, utility model registration applications, design registration applications, and trademark registration applications.
■Creating drawings for international patent applications (PCT).
■Creation of drawings for international trademark registration applications (Madpro).
■Creating drawings for patent applications, utility model registration applications, design registration applications, and trademark registration applications overseas (all over the world).
■Almost all drawings are created by computer. Supports graphic data in various file formats.
General Affairs and Accounting Division
■General support work related to office management
■General accounting processing
Information System Department
■Security control room
- ◇ All practices related to access control
◇ All practices related to management of information resources
◇ All practices related to systemic/human security
■System development office
- ◇ Development of in-house practice systems
◇ Construction, maintenance, and operation of databases
◇ Maintenance of computers
◇ Construction, maintenance, and operation of in-house network (LAN)
■DX Promotion Office
■HP committee
- ◇ All practices related to update, management, and maintenance of websites for in-house practices
◇ All practices related to update, management, and maintenance of official website