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: Japanese granted patents in 2021 (registration date).
- First country: Foreign (i.e., patents with claiming priority of a foreign application, or patents based on PCT application whose receiving office is not Japan Patent Office without claiming any 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 | Web |
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1 | 375 | SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO | View |
2 | 270 | Shimizu Patent Office | View |
3 | 188 | SHIGA International Patent Office | View |
4 | 171 | Aoyama & Partners | View |
5 | 146 | Abe, Ikubo & Katayama | View |
6 | 139 | SEIWA PATENT & LAW | View |
7 | 123 | Hiraki & Associates | View |
8 | 112 | YUASA AND HARA | View |
9 | 109 | Sonoda & Kobayashi | View |
10 | 82 | Nakamura & Partners | View |
11 | 78 | SUBARU PATENT OFFICE | View |
12 | 73 | Takaoka IP Law | View |
13 | 70 | TSUKUNI & ASSOCIATES | View |
14 | 66 | Soei Patent & Law Firm | View |
15 | 64 | Anderson Mori & Tomotsune | View |
16 | 57 | Kuzuwa & Partners | View |
17 | 51 | KAWAGUTI & PARTNERS | View |
18 | 48 | Takashima International Patent Office | View |
19 | 48 | TMI Associates | View |
20 | 46 | SAEGUSA & Partners | View |
21 | 46 | Asamura Patent Office, p.c. | View |
22 | 42 | ONDA TECHNO Intl. Patent Attys | View |
23 | 40 | Orion Patent Office | View |
24 | 38 | SUGIMURA & Partners | View |
25 | 38 | HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK | View |
26 | 32 | YuNeed International Patent Office | View |
27 | 32 | KIYOHARA & CO.,PATENT ATTORNEYS | View |
28 | 31 | Hirota, Nagare & Associates | View |
29 | 30 | Unius Patent Attorneys Office | View |
30 | 28 | Hirota & Associates | View |
31 | 28 | KYOWA PATENT AND LAW OFFICE | View |
32 | 27 | Kita-Aoyama International Patent Bureau | View |
33 | 24 | SK Intellectual Property Law Firm | View |
34 | 24 | TAIYO, NAKAJIMA & KATO | View |
35 | 23 | OHNO & PARTNERS | View |
36 | 22 | Yoshikawa International Patent Office | View |
37 | 21 | In-house patent attorney | - |
38 | 20 | Okuyama & Sasajima | View |
39 | 18 | Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office | View |
40 | 17 | Sonderhoff & Einsel | View |
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.