<2016-All> Firm Ranking of the number of Japanese patent applications in the IoT field in 2016

2019-01-24 2019-04-28

The following table shows the ranking of Japanese IP law firm. The ranking is based on the following conditions.

Technical field: IoT (IoT technology having broad facet classification: safe driving support system, study support system, smart kitchen devices, etc.)
Status: All (i.e., Japanese patent applications in 2016 (application date)).
First country: All (i.e., patent applications with claiming priority of a Japanese application or a foreign application, or without claiming priority).
Count: The number of Japanese patent applications handled by each Japanese IP law firm was counted (applicants of the patent applications are represented by each Japanese IP law firm or its members).

Ranking	No.	IP law firm	Website
1	30	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
2	27	Sakai International Patent Office	View
3	18	ITOH International Patent Office	View
4	13	TMI Associates	View
5	12	SUGIMURA & Partners	View
6	12	Fukami Patent Office, P.C.	View
7	10	TANI & ABE, p.c.	View
8	9	SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law	View
9	9	SEIWA PATENT & LAW	View
10	8	Miyoshi & Miyoshi	View
11	8	Soei Patent & Law Firm	View
12	7	Yamakawa International Patent Office	View
13	7	Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office	View
14	6	SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO	View
15	6	NII Patent Firm	View
16	6	In-house patent attorney	－
17	6	RYUKA IP LAW FIRM	View
18	6	Washida & Associates	View
19	5	Nakamura & Partners	View
20	5	Asahi Patent Firm	View

In preparing the table, a patent search expert conducted a patent search using patent classification and keywords (as necessary) in order to extract patents in specific technical field (here, IoT field).
In the patent search, it was confirmed that a high-accuracy population (i.e., a population not including non-relevant fields) of patents was obtained. Subsequently, the population was used to create the table.

By entering the Firm name or Attorney name in the "Legal Representative Name" column of Patentscope (search system of WIPO), you can find the patent information handled by each Firm.