Guide for Patents

　This article provides an overview of the Japanese patent process and strategies for patent applicants to successfully secure their patents in Japan.

　In addition to the legal skills required to practice intellectual property law, our attorneys are trained as professional engineers and scientists. Many of them have significant experiences in their respective fields.

Services offered by our patent prosecution team are as follows:

Arranging for patentability, infringement and prior art searches;
Preparing patent applications;
Providing legal consultation on the strengths and weaknesses of patents;
Prosecuting interference contests to resolve priority invention; and
Establishing license agreements.

　We are capable of producing patent applications of the highest quality which include many more claims than the original draft, whether working from corporate client drafts or from sketches provided by small enterprises and private inventors.

　More than just drafting applications, we focus on exploring opportunities to maximize the rewards a particular invention can provide to a client. This is possible with Ohashi&Associates due to our ability to have insight into the nature of inventions, gained from our technical experience, and our understanding of the business environment.

　Technical fields in which Ohashi&Associates operate include mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electrics, software, computing, telecommunication, mobile phone technology, semiconductors,and optical engineering.