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
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 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.

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