Earlier this month, Sonoda & Kobayashi participated in the 2023 edition of INTA in Singapore. We would like to extend our thanks to all those colleagues present there.

A new team member joins Sonoda & Kobayashi's International Affairs Department ..

Sonoda & Kobayashi holds webinar on Trademarks in the Metaverse on June 20 in collaboration with EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation and EUIPO...

Sonoda & Kobayashi has been featured in The Patent Lawyer Magazine Law Firm Rankings 2023 in the September/October 2023 issue and ranked in the Top 10 Patent Firms and IP Practices in Japan.

On April 26th and 27th, Sonoda & Kobayashi attended the Nordic IPR Summit in Stockholm. It was a good occasion to listen to the interesting views of a various IP experts in real life for the first time in a long while.

The Nikkei then reports that the JPO would revise the design law and patent law in 2026 to make it easier to protect original inventions under certain conditions.

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