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

  • Technical field:  Medical device (syringe, stent, endoscope apparatus, X-ray imaging apparatus, etc.)
  • Status:  Japanese granted patents in 2018 (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).
RankingNo.IP law firmWebsite
1446SHINSEI PATENT OFFICE View
2360ITOH International Patent Office View
3304SHIGA International Patent Office View
4269SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO View
5241SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law View
6196SEIWA PATENT & LAW View
7172Nakamura & Partners View
8171In-house patent attorney
9166ONDA TECHNO Intl. Patent Attys View
10163ITOH-SHIN PATENT OFFICE View
11148Toranomon Intellectual Property Firm View
12142SUBARU PATENT OFFICE View
13135TANI & ABE, p.c. View
14127Sakai International Patent Office View
15125YUASA AND HARA View
16122M&S Partners View
17117Ohtsuka Patent Office View
18113TAIYO, NAKAJIMA & KATO View
19111Aoyama & Partners View
20106In-house patent attorney
21101Fukami Patent Office, P.C. View
2294Soei Patent & Law Firm View
2388SUGIMURA & Partners View
2487In-house patent attorney
2580TMI Associates View
2680YKI Intellectual Property Attorneys View
2774Kyoritsu Institute View
2873Tokyo International Parent Firm View
2967Koyo International Patent Firm View
3067Sonderhoff & 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, Medical device 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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