<2019-All> Firm Ranking of the number of Japanese granted patents in the Healthcare×IT field in 2019

2020-04-21 2020-04-19

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 2019 (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	31	ITOH International Patent Office	View
2	19	iPLAB Startups	View
3	18	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
4	18	Sakai International Patent Office	View
5	16	SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law	View
6	12	M&S Partners	View
7	12	KOKUBUN INTERNATIONAL PATENTS & TRADEMARKS	View
8	11	Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office	View
9	11	In-house patent attorney	－
10	11	SOCO IP LAW FIRM	View
11	10	IP seed Patent Firm	View
12	10	KATAYAMA & PARTNERS	View
13	10	Misawa Patent, p.c.	View
14	9	SATO & ASSOCIATES	View
15	9	In-house patent attorney	－

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.