Features of our firm
Inoue & Associates (located within 1 minute walk from the Japan Patent Office) is an intellectual property (IP) firm having more than 30 years of experience in international IP business.
Inoue & Associates is a modest-sized firm composed of members each having excellent knowledge about the IP law and technologies and excellent skill in documentation in both Japanese and English, which enables constant production of high quality documents at reasonable cost. That is, each one of us is conversant with both Japanese and English languages, and is trained to produce IP-related documents having a clear and logical construction, based on full understanding of technical background and IP law. Therefore, you can avoid troubles frequently caused by ordinary Japanese practitioners handling patent applications from foreign clients, such as high cost due to the need for a plurality of specialists (such as a patent attorney and a translator) and mistakes caused by misunderstanding between a patent attorney and a translator, etc. Our skill in IP business is highly evaluated by our clients including two Japanese famous professors emeriti, Dr. Nobuatsu Watanabe and Dr. Hidefumi Hirai , whose recommendations are shown in this web site.
Our well-skilled staff members will surely be of great help to you in establishing strong and valuable intellectual property portfolio while reducing cost therefor.
When we are given the opportunity to do business with you, you will immediately know that we are devoted to efficient acquisition and protection of your valuable intellectual properties.
Further, please note that we are capable of handling urgent cases.
Our services
▼Our services include:
- (1) filing and prosecuting domestic applications for patents, utility models, designs, trademarks and service marks,
- (2) filing and prosecuting international patent applications,
- (3) demands for trials, such as trial against a decision of rejection, trial for invalidation, and trial for correction,
- (4) filing oppositions and responses to oppositions,
- (5) appeals before the Tokyo High Court against the trial decisions and opposition decisions rendered by the Japan Patent Office,
- (6) handling of foreign applications on behalf of Japanese and foreign applicants,
- (7) maintenance, assignments and management of intellectual property portfolios, and
- (8) translations of documents necessary for patent applications and translations of any other documents.
Technical fields of our professional services
Technical fields of our professional services include: wide variety of technical fields including chemistry, biochemistry, genetic engineering, electric and electronic engineering, mechanical technology, etc.
Recommendations by two professors
■1) Nobuatsu Watanabe [Title: Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University, Doctor of Engineering; Award: The Chemical Society Japan Award (1980), Purple Ribbon Medal (Shijuhosho) (1987), etc.]
Mr. Inoue, the Senior Partner, is my former student. He has both excellent linguistic ability and excellent expertise. The staff of Inoue & Associates are well-trained by Mr. Inoue, and the high quality services provided by Mr. Inoue and his staff are self-explanatory from the documents made by them. From my experience, I firmly believe that they will help you to promptly and surely acquire intellectual property rights, based on adequate judgment made by fully utilizing their professional skills in combination with their rich experience in pursuit of patent rights in many countries for many years.
■2) Hidefumi Hirai [Title: Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Doctor of Engineering; Award: The Chemical Society Japan Award (1984), etc.]
Mr. Inoue, the Senior Partner, and his staff are familiar with foreign patent laws and patent practices. Further, the quality of their services based on accurate understanding of technical background and excellent linguistic ability is prominent in this business. In addition, Mr. Inoue already has his appropriate successor and I, therefore, trust Inoue & Associates for their excellent procedures of filing patent applications through reliable prosecutions for grant of patents.
Contact us
If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Inoue & Associates
Address: 3rd floor, Akasaka Habitation Building, 3-5, Akasaka 1-Chome, Minatoku, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3582-2971; Fax: +81-3-3582-3209
■E-mail: inoue-as@mx1.alpha-web.ne.jp
■Web Site: http://www.inoue-as.com