We can assist you in developing IP strategies in the medical device field by utilizing our proprietary “Medical Device IP Analysis Report”.

・Research for the possibility of new entry into the medical device field.

・Research for new markets and needs in the medical device field.
・Research for potential partners in the medical device field, etc.

An employee invention is an invention made by an employee of a company in the course of his or her duties. These employee inventions can be attributed to the company through employee invention rules or contracts. By establishing these regulations,
(1) Avoiding lawsuits between companies and employees concerning compensation for inventions,
(2) Increasing the motivation of employees.

A trademark is a mark (identifying sign) used by a business to distinguish its (its company’s) products and services from those of others (other companies). By establishing these regulations, the following points can be clarified and established in an organized manner.
(1) Promotion of trademark drafting, investigation prior to filing a trademark application, and determination of whether or not a trademark application is necessary
(2) Determining whether to maintain rights, preventing others from registering similar trademarks, licensing, and responding to infringements.
(3) Precautions in the use of trademarks.

Know-how protection and management is the determination of whether to protect inventions, etc. created in a company as know-how, as well as the management of non-public data, customer information, and other know-how to prevent them from being leaked to outside parties. By establishing these regulations, the following points can be clarified and established in an organized manner.
(1) Determining whether to file an patent application and whether to protect it as know-how
(2) How to properly protect know-how

If a product or service is found to infringe on another company’s intellectual property rights after it has been sold, the company may be forced to change the design, pay expensive licensing fees, or, worse, abandon the business. By establishing these regulations,
(1) Prevent infringement of other companies’ IP rights by systematically implementing clearance of other companies’ IP rights for products and services to be developed and sold, starting from the product planning stage.

When you operate a business, you may encounter other companies making offers to sell or license IP rights, notifying you of infringement of their IP rights, filing lawsuits against you, or challenging or invalidating your IP rights. By establishing these regulations,
(1) When such the external matters arise, you will be able to systematically carry out appropriate responses without panicking.

Many companies use the invention proposal documents when they have completed an invention. However, if the company does not write an invention proposal documents in a self-styled manner, the patent attorney may not be able to accurately understand the details of the invention, which may cause problems such as not appropriately obtaining the IP rights or disclosing know-how that should not have been disclosed. By establishing these regulations,
(1) You will be able to learn how to write an invention proposal from a first-rate IP department and accurately inform the patent attorney of the rights you wish to obtain.
Furthermore, we can assist you in establishing an operation rule to determine whether or not to file an patent application and whether or not to maintain your rights.

We conduct prior art searches, infringement searches, invalidated material searches, foreign patent searches, and other searches as requested by our clients.
We also conduct searches for the existence or non-existence of distinctiveness in the naming of your products and services, as well as searches for identical or similar trademarks of other companies.
We also conduct prior art searches on the design of your products.

In recent years, many companies in the same and different industries have been cooperating with each other through M&A, R&D, joint development, business alliances, licensing, and so on. I
n such alliances, companies are simultaneously dealing with the intellectual property rights of their own technologies and brands, which can be to their advantage or disadvantage depending on the IP contract and negotiations. We support you with the most appropriate IP contracts and negotiations.

You want to request a patent application, but you don’t know a good patent firm. You are not sure if the patent firm you are dealing with is excellent. We, who have handled cases for many firms as an experienced member of a corporate IP department, will help you select and evaluate a firm.