Our Services

  Our policy is the best assist and support to our clients and our colleagues with possible high-quality, reasonable cost-performance, quickness, diligence, honesty, versatility and continuity.

  We shall price our professional prosecution works and services based on our unique charge system so called to as "value-dependent-time-charge system", wherein the time charge rate might vary in the range of  12,000 yen through  24,000 yen depending on the value that we think faire. We believe that our charge system results in possible better cost performances.

  Each of our attorney and our patent engineers has high skills and sufficient experiences for application works including translation works and prosecution works as well as regal matter works in foreign-languages, for example, English and German.

  Each of our patent engineers also has not only high language-ability and high technical-knowledge but also any other high skills and experiences including legal matters as excellent attorneys have.

  We have never used outsource translators or translation companies who simply do translation works. Our excellent patent engineers, with high working skills and sufficient experiences as well as high language-ability, do prepare the complete Japanese specification and claims based on the original English or German text supplied by the client, or performs the exact translation works between Japanese and English or German. Our translation fees mentioned on the last page are believed to be quite reasonable but never high.

  Our experiences since 1967 with the above-described working system allow us to provide better quality services at quite reasonable and lower costs.

  We have about fifty years' firm history and a great deal of experiences in IP matters, for which we have received high reliances from the clients. Our additional services to our new clients may include the followings:

  1. Checking conflict of interests in the clients
  2. Estimation of costs
     After we receive your orders including filing applications, we at first prepare a draft estimate of the costs for your agreement.
  3. Conducting searches if necessary or upon receipt of your request.
     We conduct the computer database searches required for prior art disclosure obligation or uncovering any prior registration.
  4. Preparation of procedures

  We start preparing procedures according to your instructions.

  We always keep you informed of any progress and provide you with our comments and advices in order to reduce your burdens.

  If you want to grant a license, we recommend posting creations on our website to invite a licensee. It is the most important matter of the patent administration to realize the licensing.

  We also pay close attentions to matters of antitrust, product liability and passing-off and take prompt actions against piracies to be controlled by the customs or polices.

  You are available to communicate with us in English, German and Japanese to make communications proper and prompt. It is possible, however, that we receive your communication and/or orders in your own language.