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April 24,2025

Holiday Notice for May 3~May 6

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April 18,2025

Holiday Notice for April 29, 2025

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March 17,2025

Holiday Notice for March 20, 2025

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February 20,2025

Holiday Notice for February 24, 2025

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December 25,2024

Holiday Notice for Dec. 28, 2024 ~ Jan. 5, 2025 & Jan. 13, 2025

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October 29,2024

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October 9,2024

Holiday Notice for October 14, 2024

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September 3,2024

Holiday Notice for September 16 & 23, 2024

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August 6,2024

Holiday Notice for August 12, 2024

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July 5,2024

Holiday Notice for July 15, 2024

PUBLICATIONS

April 15,2024

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, joined, co-authored and published the article on the symposium “Cross Border Patent Infringement” in the first issue of SOFTIC Law Review.

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April 14,2024

Holiday Notice for April 29, May 3~May 6

PUBLICATIONS

January 24,2024

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, and attorney at law and patent attroney, authored and published the article regarding territorial principle and cross-border infringement of IPRs in the Patent.

LECTURES

January 24,2024

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, attorney at law and patent attorney, gave a web seminar titled as “Territorial Principle and Cross-Border Infringement of IPRs” at Yamaguchi University.

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January 12,2024

Practices（Dispatch of lecturers）has been updated.

PUBLICATIONS

October 31,2023

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article on the criteria to determine co-inventorship, which was published in the Festschrift for Misao SHIMIZU on Seventieth Birthday.

PUBLICATIONS

October 31,2023

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article on 2023 IP Acts Amendment, which was publishded in Julist.

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October 23,2023

Holiday Notice for November 3, 2023

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October 2,2023

Holiday Notice for Oct 9, 2023

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September 4,2023

Holiday Notice for September 18, 2023

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August 31,2023

Practices（Fashion）has been updated.

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August 31,2023

Practices（Publicity Rights）has been updated.

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August 1,2023

Holiday Notice for August 11, 2023

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July 11,2023

Practices（Border enforcement）has been updated.

AWARDS

June 26,2023

Ranked “Tier 1” in ALB ASIA IP RANKINGS 2023

PUBLICATIONS

June 9,2023

Handbook for Labor Dispute Resolution Revised Edition, which was revised by Hidekazu NISHIMURA (Mr.), attorney at law, was published.

PUBLICATIONS

May 8,2023

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article “IP High Court Grand Panel Judgment on Applicability of Article 102II of Patent Act, Overcome of Presumption by the Article, Applicability of Article 102III of Patent Act onto Overcome Part, etc.”, which was published in the Hanreihisho Journal.

PUBLICATIONS

May 8,2023

Kei IIDA (Mr.), partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article “Measures against Warning Letter and Lawsuit based on IPR”, which was published in the Legal Advice for Startup.

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May 1,2023

Practices（Trade Secret）has been updated.

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April 17,2023

Holiday Notice for May 3~May 7

LECTURES

March 29,2023

Masakazu KOBAYASHI (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, gave a lecture titled “Space Business and Intellectual Property – Focusing on Patents” hosted by Japan Space Law Association.

LECTURES

March 24,2023

Masakazu KOBAYASHI (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, gave a lecture titled “How to Interpret and Analyze Other Companies’ Patent Claims and Patent Specifications and Find Weak Points” hosted by Technical Information Institute Co.,Ltd.

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March 10,2023

Practices（Media）has been updated.

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March 10,2023

Practices（Big Data）has been updated.

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March 1,2023

Holiday Notice for March 21, 2023

AWARDS

February 20,2023

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in ASIA IP

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February 2,2023

Practices（Open Innovation）has been updated.

NOTICES

February 1,2023

Holiday Notice for February 23, 2023

LECTURES

January 26,2023

Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, gave a lecture titled as “Intellectual Property” at Customs Training Institute.

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January 23,2023

Practices（Open & Close Strategy）has been updated.

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January 23,2023

Practices（Entertainment）has been updated.

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January 13,2023

Notice of Temporary Phone and Fax Suspension (January 28, 2023)

AWARDS

January 13,2023

Ranked Band 1 in “Intellectual Property:Domestic-Japan” of Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023

NOTICES

December 2,2022

Kei IIDA, partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, received the China and Japan Trademark Communication Contribution Award.

PUBLICATIONS

December 2,2022

Kei IIDA, partner, and attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article “Sequel Study on Calculation of Damages under IP High Court Grand Panel Decisions on Beauty Instrument Case and Viscous Compositions containing Carbon Dioxide Case and Patent Act Amendment 2019”, which was published in the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW and POLICY JOURNAL Vol. 64.

NOTICES

December 1,2022

Holiday Notice for Dec. 29, 2022 ~ Jan. 3, 2023 & Jan. 9, 2023

PUBLICATIONS

November 24,2022

Hidekazu NISHIMURA, attorney at law, authored the article “Trademarks Used as Hashtags” which was published in the Patent.

NOTICES

November 14,2022

Holiday Notice for November 23, 2022

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October 24,2022

Holiday Notice for November 3, 2022

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October 19,2022

Practices（Agribusiness Law）has been updated.

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October 3,2022

Holiday Notice for October 10, 2022

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September 27,2022

Practices（Space Law）has been updated.

AWARDS

September 21,2022

Ranked “Outstanding” in Asialaw 2022/23 Rankings

PUBLICATIONS

September 20,2022

Kei IIDA, partner, and attorney at law and patent attroney, authored and published the article regarding Japan Customs’ IPR Border Enforcement against Private Import, which will become in force from Octover 1, 2022, in the Patent.　

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September 5,2022

Holiday Notice for September 19 & 23, 2022

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August 1,2022

Holiday Notice for August 11, 2022

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June 11,2022

Holiday Notice for July 18, 2022

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May 16,2022

The JPO announced a “Knowledge Collection of IP Strategy Designers Dispatching Project 2021”, which is a collection of know-how (knowledge) acquired from the project in which Yoshimitsu KUDO (Mr.), a patent attorney, acted as a member of IP strategy designers.

AWARDS

May 10,2022

Takaki NISHIJIMA Awarded Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays

AWARDS

April 14,2022

Kei IIDA Ranked in Asia IP

AWARDS

April 14,2022

Kei IIDA Ranked in Chambers and Partners

NOTICES

April 11,2022

Holiday Notice for April 29 ~May 1 & May 3~May 5

AWARDS

April 8,2022

Hideki TAKAISHI Ranked in Chambers and Partners

PUBLICATIONS

April 6,2022

Kei IIDA, attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article “Study on Calculation of Damages under IP High Court Grand Panel Decisions on Beauty Instrument Case and Viscous Compositions containing Carbon Dioxide Case and Patent Act Amendment 2019”, which was published in the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW and POLICY JOURNAL Vol. 60.

AWARDS

March 25,2022

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in MIP

PUBLICATIONS

March 20,2022

Masakazu KOBAYASHI(Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, authored “Case of Direct Infringement by Defendant who Performs Only a Part of Process Invention – “Method for Installing Handrails” Case – ” which was published in “Intellectual Property Management” .

NOTICES

March 14,2022

Holiday Notice for March 21, 2022

PUBLICATIONS

February 25,2022

Kunimitsu KOMATSU authored “Case in which Inventive Step and Support Requirement of the Same Invention Including a Numerical Limitation Were Evaluated in Different Court Decisions, Respectively,” which was published in Monthly Journal “A.I.P.P.I.”

AWARDS

February 18,2022

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in ASIA IP and Chambers and Partners

NOTICES

February 14,2022

Holiday Notice for February 23, 2022

LEGAL UPDATES

February 10,2022

Increase in Patent Annuities and Trademark Registration Fees on April 1, 2022

LECTURES

February 1,2022

Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, will give a lecture titled as “Intellectual Property” at Customs Training Institute.

PUBLICATIONS

January 21,2022

Hideki TAKAISHI (Mr.), patent attorney and attorney-at-law, published an article in The Encyclopedia of Patent Judgments (Third Edition)

LECTURES

January 6,2022

Yoshimitsu KUDO (Mr.), patent attorney, will be on stage at a panel session of Society for management of intellectual properties (Smips).

PUBLICATIONS

January 5,2022

Shoichi SATAKE (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, co-authored the book entitled Anti-Doping Procedures and Rules which was published by SHOJIHOMU.

LECTURES

December 28,2021

Kei IIDA, Hironobu HATTORI, and Kunimitsu KOMATSU gave a lecture titled “Various Issues of Agricultural and Fishery Intellectual Properties in the Food Sector: Innovation”

LECTURES

December 28,2021

Kei IIDA, Reiko TONOMURA, and Takashi ISHIDO gave a lecture titled “Various Issues of Agricultural and Fishery Intellectual Properties in the Food Sector: Brand Management”

AWARDS

December 27,2021

Ranked Band 1 in “Intellectual Property:Domestic-Japan” of Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022

NOTICES

December 7,2021

Holiday Notice for Dec. 29, 2021 ~ Jan. 3, 2022 & Jan. 10, 2022

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November 15,2021

Holiday Notice for November 23, 2021

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October 25,2021

Holiday Notice for November 3, 2021

AWARDS

September 27,2021

Ranked “Outstanding” in Asialaw Profiles 2022

PUBLICATIONS

September 17,2021

Hidekazu NISHIMURA authored articles regarding clear indication of working conditions and continuous contracts which were published in the Freelance Handbook.

NOTICES

September 10,2021

Holiday Notice for Sep. 20 & 23, 2021

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September 7,2021

The JPO announced a “Knowledge Collection of IP Strategy Designers Dispatching Project 2020”, which is a collection of know-how (knowledge) acquired from the project in which Yoshimitsu KUDO (Mr.), a patent attorney, acted as a member of IP strategy designers.

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August 2,2021

Holiday Notice for August 9, 2021

AWARDS

July 27,2021

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in MIP

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July 7,2021

Holiday Notice for July 22 & July 23, 2021

AWARDS

July 6,2021

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in IAM Patent 1000

AWARDS

May 31,2021

Ranked Tier 1 in Asia IP Trademark Survey 2021

LECTURES

May 12,2021

Kunimitsu KOMATSU gave a lecture at AIPPI Japan 198^th Case Study Workshop

NOTICES

April 1,2021

Holiday Notice for April 29 & May 1 ~ May 5

PUBLICATIONS

March 9,2021

Hidekazu NISHIMURA (Mr.), attorney at law, authored an article regarding leakage of personal information which was published in Practical Solutions to the 2020 Revision of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information.

AWARDS

February 25,2021

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in ASIA IP and Chambers and Partners

NOTICES

February 15,2021

Holiday Notice for February 23, 2021

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February 1,2021

Holiday Notice for February 11, 2021

LECTURES

December 3,2020

Yuriko KUDO (Ms.), patent attorney, reported on research results regarding the Japanese Design Act at the 18th Annual Research Presentation Meeting of the Intellectual Property Association of Japan held on November 28 and 29, 2020.

NOTICES

December 1,2020

Holiday Notice for Dec. 29, 2020 ~ Jan. 3, 2021 & Jan. 11, 2021

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November 9,2020

Holiday Notice for November 23, 2020

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October 19,2020

Holiday Notice for November 3, 2020

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