Japanese Intellectual Property, Patent and Trademark Law Firm in Japan

In our regular procedures of domestic cases, counseling and replies to various inquiries from our clients are must-do to select the best trademark and appropriate goods/services before filing. Therefore, high expertise services are applied to most domestic cases. 

However, our experience tells that some cases from foreign IP firms or foreign IP departments are smoothly filed without counseling or question-and-answer services.  This saves our time and loads a lot and allows us to offer the following "Two-Step-Application Service".
If condition permits, please consider this service for your clients.


We provide the following services for the cases coming from IP firms or directly from IP departments due to the reason given above.   
If you are an individual applicant and have any delegates that handle your case, please let them mediate the case. 

Fee schedule of Two-Step-Application Service

Step of Filing Application

Notice

1. If received a notification of Reasons for refusal (Office Action) to require minor changes of description or deletion of the designated goods/services, we will file amendments for free.

2. Please note that the following services are NOT included. 
 1) Counseling and question-and-answer services 

 2) Trademark search before filing  
   If requested, we will conduct the following searches:    
    - Search for prior trademark registration and application (per one word mark, one class) using fee-based database - 30,000JPY    
    - Search for prior trademark registration and application (per one device, one class) using fee-based database - 50,000JPY    
     * We conduct an identical search on a word mark for prior trademark registrations and applications for free before filing.    

 3) Response to notification of Reasons for refusal (Office Action) other than requiring minor changes of description or deletion of the designated goods/services 
     If requested, we will file an amendment and/or argument on a usual procedure. 

 4) Postal delivery 
   All the documents ( other than "Registration Certificate") are sent via e-mail or facsimile. 

3. The trademark right will last for 10 years from the registration date. No notification of the end of the duration of a trademark right or no reminder of the next renewal will be provided by JPO. Therefore, in principal, applicants are responsible for the procedure of the next renewal.
     * A service to supervise a due date for the next renewal and send reminders will be offered at an additional charge.


If you need further information on this matter, please contact us at http://en.aigipat.com/contact/index.htm