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

2019-01-28 2019-04-28

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

Technical field: Biotechnology (Protein, amino acid, DNA, RNA, Recombinant DNA, antibody, peputide, iPS cell, ES cell, vaccine, 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	714	SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO	View
2	432	Shimizu Patent Office	View
3	348	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
4	341	Hiraki & Associates	View
5	282	Aoyama & Partners	View
6	236	Abe, Ikubo & Katayama	View
7	218	SEIWA PATENT & LAW	View
8	184	YUASA AND HARA	View
9	135	Nakamura & Partners	View
10	135	Sonoda & Kobayashi	View
11	129	Soei Patent & Law Firm	View
12	127	SAEGUSA & Partners	View
13	105	Takaoka IP Law	View
14	104	Takashima International Patent Office	View
15	102	KAWAGUTI & PARTNERS	View
16	101	TSUKUNI & ASSOCIATES	View
17	90	Kuzuwa & Partners	View
18	90	YuNeed International Patent Office	View
19	86	TMI Associates	View
20	83	SUGIMURA & Partners	View
21	80	Asamura Patent Office, p.c.	View
22	77	KYOWA PATENT AND LAW OFFICE	View
23	75	SUBARU PATENT OFFICE	View
24	69	The Patent Corporate Body Aruga Patent Office	View
25	68	Orion Patent Office	View
26	68	Anderson Mori & Tomotsune	View
27	66	SIKs & Co.	View
28	66	IP Firm SHUWA	View
29	62	HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK	View
30	60	TAIYO, NAKAJIMA & KATO	View
31	57	Hirota & Associates	View
32	56	ONDA TECHNO Intl. Patent Attys	View
33	51	OHNO & PARTNERS	View
34	45	Hirota, Nagare & Associates	View
35	45	Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office	View
36	43	Okuyama & Sasajima	View
37	39	Tanigawa and Associates	None
38	37	SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law	View
39	37	Isono International Patent Office, P. C.	View
40	35	KIYOHARA & CO.,PATENT ATTORNEYS	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, Biotechnology 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.