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The firm

Yoshikawa International Patent Office was established in 1988 by Mr Toshio Yoshikawa. Located in Osaka of Western Japan, the firm is a leading intellectual property firm specialising in patents, trade marks, utility models, design and professional translation.

Yoshikawa International Patent Office have established strong business relationships with top companies worldwide, building a solid international reputation based on high-quality cost-effective services.

Professional services, clear vision and solid experience allow the firm to achieve thriving business relationships with clients.

The firm’s staff hold advanced degrees and industry experience in cutting-edge scientific disciplines to maximise the value of intellectual property in Japan. In addition, Yoshikawa International Patent Office have their own legal translation department, allowing them to reduce the cost of filing patent/utility model applications.

As part of their international expansion strategy, from 2012 Yoshikawa International Patent Office is opening a liaison office in San Francisco to provide overseas support services and assist their American clients in intellectual property matters.

The firm is launching a new multilingual website in August 2011, to provide their international clients with legal procedures and assistance in other main languages including: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Adequate and effective protection of industrial property rights plays a key role for companies willing to successfully expand into the highly competitive Japanese market.

Areas of practice

From individual inventors to Fortune 500 companies, Yoshikawa International Patent Office represents a wide range of clients in IP matters, holding extensive experience and helping companies to protect their intellectual property in Japan.

The scope of the firm’s practice includes all legal affairs relating to intellectual property law. Specifically, the firm handles patent, trademark, design and utility model applications. It provides expert advice and representation to these intellectual property rights. The firm’s professional team has exceptional industry experience and hold advance degrees from top universities in Japan. Their clientele is made of small and multinational corporations from a wide range of business sectors, including: mechanics, automobile, airplane, computers, mechanical/electrical engineering, chemistry, telecommunication, semiconductors, biotechnology, optical technology, construction, cosmetics, medical equipment, textile (fashion) and pharmaceutical. The firm also provides professional international staff for communication in English, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Chinese and Korean, and advise on the IP prosecution of patent, trade mark, design and utility models. Patent applications include all areas of technology, including computer hardware and software, IT, semiconductors, construction engineering, biochemistry and bioengineering. Clients are represented in infringement cases, both in court and out of court for negotiations to resolve disputes. Other services are litigation (appeals for invalidation, infringement lawsuits and opposition of trademarks), licensing, copyright, layout design of integrated circuit protection, plant variety protection, monitoring services and IP searches. The firm’s scientific expertise covers all technical fields including: mechanical and electrical engineering (computer science, hardware and software, semiconductor science, chemistry (biochemistry, pharmacy and nanotechnology), instruments (optics, medical technology), medicine, physics, architecture and civil engineering.

Languages
Chinese
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish

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Member INTA (International Trademark Association); AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)

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