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PATENT-Brief overview
Patent protection is one of the strategies by which companies promote their business or by which universities or colleges continue their excellent scientific or technological research works. Effective and successful patent protection needs not only excellent inventions but also legal skills based on long term experience and high level legal knowledge.
Patent is one of the exclusive rights for protecting scientific and/or technological subject matters made by one or more inventors belonging to companies, universities, colleges, national research institutes or individuals, and a long-term right capable of keeping 20 years in case of a standard invention or 25 years in case of a particular invention related pharmaceutical after filing it at longest. Japanese patent can be granted by following flow.
1. From entry of a PCT application into Japan national phase to being granted
2. From filing of a Japanese patent application to being granted
Japanese patent attorneys in Hasegawa Patent Law firm have technological and scientific backgrounds in biotechnology; chemistry; material science; electronics; electrical and mechanical engineering; and computer hardware and software. Our experienced patent attorneys routinely prepare and file patent applications, provide opinions on the patentability of new developments as well as on the validity and infringement of existing patents. In addition to domestic patent protection, we work with foreign associates worldwide to prosecute and obtain foreign patent rights, oppose foreign patents, and defend foreign patents in opposition proceedings.
It is our commitment to help clients. It is both the quality of the thought and the quality of the service that we contribute that our clients feel is invaluable to their growth and success.
Our Services include
● Japan and international patent prosecution
● Prior artssearch for making invalid other patents
● Expert opinions on infringement, validity, enforcement and freedom-to-operate
● Due diligence studies
● Administrative proceedings, including oppositions in other countries
● Licensing negotiations and drafting
● Support of litigation pertaining to patent infringement and defense against patent infringement claims