<2018-All> Firm Ranking of the number of Japanese granted patents in the Healthcare×IT field in 2018

2019-03-03 2019-04-28

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

Technical field: Healthcare×IT (Healthcare informatics, Electronic health record, health monitoring system, etc.)
Status: Japanese granted patents in 2018 (registration date).
First country: All (i.e., patents with claiming priority of a Japanese application or a foreign application, or without claiming priority).
Count: The number of patents handled by each Japanese IP law firm was counted (if the applicant is represented by a firm member (attorney), it was counted as being handled by the firm).

Ranking	No.	IP law firm	Website
1	33	ITOH International Patent Office	View
2	25	SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law	View
3	22	Kyoritsu Institute	View
4	20	Sakai International Patent Office	View
5	15	Misawa Patent, p.c.	View
6	13	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
7	11	Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office	View
8	11	TMI Associates	View
9	10	Nakamura & Partners	View
10	10	Washida & Associates	View
11	10	Ohtsuka Patent Office	View
12	9	Nishijin Patent Firm	None
13	9	TAIYO, NAKAJIMA & KATO	View
14	9	Shin-Ei Patent Firm, P.C.	View
15	9	SATO & ASSOCIATES	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, Healthcare×IT 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.