<2016-All> Firm Ranking of the number of Japanese patent applications in the RNAi/miRNA field in 2016

2019-01-27 2019-04-28

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

Technical field: RNAi and/or miRNA (pharmaceutical composition containing siRNA, shRNA or miRNA, and biomarker containing miRNA, 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	18	Aoyama & Partners	View
2	18	SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO	View
3	18	Hiraki & Associates	View
4	12	Shimizu Patent Office	View
5	11	SHIGA International Patent Office	View
6	10	Abe, Ikubo & Katayama	View
7	9	Kuzuwa & Partners	View
8	6	YUASA AND HARA	View
9	6	SEIWA PATENT & LAW	View
10	6	Takaoka IP Law	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, RNAi/miRNA 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.