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 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
1 435 SHINSEI PATENT OFFICE View
2 242 SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO View
3 226 SHIGA International Patent Office View
4 215 Nakamura & Partners View
5 215 SEIWA PATENT & LAW View
6 210 ITOH International Patent Office View
7 177 M&S Partners View
8 147 ONDA TECHNO Intl. Patent Attys View
9 146 In-house patent attorney
10 135 TANI & ABE, p.c. View
11 118 YUASA AND HARA View
12 94 Aoyama & Partners View
13 94 SUBARU PATENT OFFICE View
14 71 Okuyama & Sasajima View
15 67 HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK View
16 65 SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law View
17 57 Takaoka IP Law View
18 55 Asamura Patent Office, p.c. View
19 52 Fukami Patent Office, P.C. View
20 52 Kita-Aoyama International Patent Bureau View
21 52 Sonderhoff & Einsel View
22 51 TMI Associates View
23 48 Sonoda & Kobayashi View
24 48 YKI Intellectual Property Attorneys View
25 44 Kai-U Patent Law Firm View
26 43 Shimizu Patent Office View
27 41 Soei Patent & Law Firm View
28 40 Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office View
29 36 TAIYO, NAKAJIMA & KATO View
30 32 OSHIMA & PARTNERS View
31 30 KYOWA PATENT AND LAW OFFICE View
32 29 Shinjyu GLOBAL IP View
33 28 SUGIMURA & Partners View
34 28 SAEGUSA & Partners View
35 27 Hiraki & Associates View
36 27 Yoshikawa International Patent Office View
37 27 TSUKUNI & ASSOCIATES View
38 26 Abe, Ikubo & Katayama View
39 26 ASAHINA & CO. View
40 24 RYUKA IP LAW FIRM View
41 23 KAWAGUTI & PARTNERS View
42 21 IP Firm SHUWA View
43 20 Washida & Associates View
44 19 Ohtsuka Patent Office View
45 19 AXIS Patent International View
46 19 R&C IP Law Firm View
47 19 Miyoshi & Miyoshi View
48 19 Yamakawa International Patent Office View
49 18 KOKUBUN INTERNATIONAL PATENTS & TRADEMARKS View
50 17 HIROE AND ASSOCIATES, patent professional corporation 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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