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

2019-01-23 2019-04-28

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

Technical field: Diagnosis of disease (diagnosis agent/method, detecting agent/method of cancer/dementia, 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	32	SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO	View
2	31	Shimizu Patent Office	View
3	29	Hiraki & Associates	View
4	15	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
5	15	Aoyama & Partners	View
6	13	YUASA AND HARA	View
7	13	SAEGUSA & Partners	View
8	13	Soei Patent & Law Firm	View
9	12	YuNeed International Patent Office	View
10	10	Sonoda & Kobayashi	View
11	9	Abe, Ikubo & Katayama	View
12	9	SEIWA PATENT & LAW	View
13	8	Takaoka IP Law	View
14	8	OHNO & PARTNERS	View
15	8	KAWAGUTI & PARTNERS	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, diagnosis).
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.