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

  • Technical field:  Semiconductor (semiconductor chip, material, wafer, device, 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 95 SHIGA International Patent Office View
2 94 Sonderhoff & Einsel View
3 91 Sonoda & Kobayashi View
4 73 ITOH International Patent Office View
5 65 Nakamura & Partners View
6 49 YKI Intellectual Property Attorneys View
7 41 SEIWA PATENT & LAW View
8 34 SUZUYE & SUZUYE Intellectual Property Law View
9 31 Aoyama & Partners View
10 31 Meisei International Patent Firm View
11 30 Okabe International Patent Office View
12 29 Fukami Patent Office, P.C. View
13 27 Katayose Patent View
14 23 Anzai Patent Firm N/A
15 23 SUGIMURA & Partners View
16 22 TMI Associates View
17 20 INFORT PATENT FIRM View
18 19 Washida & Associates View
19 19 TRY International IP LAW FIRM View
20 19 HIBIKI IP LAW FIRM View
21 18 RYUKA IP LAW FIRM View
22 18 Kyosei International Patent Office View
23 16 KYOWA PATENT AND LAW OFFICE View
24 15 Ohtsuka Patent Office View
25 15 HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK View
26 14 In-house patent attorney
27 13 KOHNO & KOHNO View
28 13 YUASA AND HARA View
29 12 SHUSAKU・YAMAMOTO View
30 12 TANI & ABE, p.c. 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, semiconductor 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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