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

2019-05-10 2019-05-05

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

Technical field: Pharmaceutical (pharmaceutical composition, medicine, API, production method of thereof, 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	1091	SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO	View
2	548	Aoyama & Partners	View
3	516	Shimizu Patent Office	View
4	431	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
5	395	Hiraki & Associates	View
6	372	Abe, Ikubo & Katayama	View
7	303	SEIWA PATENT & LAW	View
8	273	YUASA AND HARA	View
9	267	Nakamura & Partners	View
10	230	SAEGUSA & Partners	View
11	213	Soei Patent & Law Firm	View
12	206	TSUKUNI & ASSOCIATES	View
13	194	KAWAGUTI & PARTNERS	View
14	182	Takaoka IP Law	View
15	181	Sonoda & Kobayashi	View
16	169	Takashima International Patent Office	View
17	146	Anderson Mori & Tomotsune	View
18	139	Orion Patent Office	View
19	131	The Patent Corporate Body Aruga Patent Office	View
20	122	Kuzuwa & Partners	View
21	121	SUBARU PATENT OFFICE	View
22	120	Asamura Patent Office, p.c.	View
23	115	KYOWA PATENT AND LAW OFFICE	View
24	97	KIYOHARA & CO.,PATENT ATTORNEYS	View
25	93	Shobayashi International Patent &Trademark Office	View
26	88	TMI Associates	View
27	82	HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK	View
28	76	ONDA TECHNO Intl. Patent Attys	View
29	71	SIKs & Co.	View
30	71	Iwatani Patent Office	View
31	68	Hirota & Associates	View
32	68	Hirota, Nagare & Associates	View
33	68	YuNeed International Patent Office	View
34	65	Unius Patent Attorneys Office	View
35	63	SUGIMURA & Partners	View
36	62	IP Firm SHUWA	View
37	60	HOSODA INTERNATIONAL PATENT OFFICE	View
38	60	SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law	View
39	59	In-house patent attorney	－
40	51	TAIYO, NAKAJIMA & KATO	View
41	49	LEXIA PARTNERS	View
42	49	TOKYO ACTi International Patent and Trademark Office	View
43	49	HIROE AND ASSOCIATES, patent professional corporation	View
44	47	Kita-Aoyama International Patent Bureau	View
45	45	SK Intellectual Property Law Firm	View
46	45	OHNO & PARTNERS	View
47	44	Shinjyu GLOBAL IP	View
48	44	Okuyama & Sasajima	View
49	40	Ashida & Kimura	View
50	40	Nagoya International Patent Firm	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, Pharmaceutical 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.