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October 3,2022

Holiday Notice for October 10, 2022

NOTICES

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.　

NOTICES

September 5,2022

Holiday Notice for September 19 & 23, 2022

NOTICES

August 1,2022

Holiday Notice for August 11, 2022

NOTICES

June 11,2022

Holiday Notice for July 18, 2022

NOTICES

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

NOTICES

November 15,2021

Holiday Notice for November 23, 2021

NOTICES

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

NOTICES

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.

NOTICES

August 2,2021

Holiday Notice for August 9, 2021

AWARDS

July 27,2021

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in MIP

NOTICES

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

NOTICES

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

NOTICES

November 9,2020

Holiday Notice for November 23, 2020

NOTICES

October 19,2020

Holiday Notice for November 3, 2020

AWARDS

October 8,2020

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in Asialaw and MIP

LECTURES

October 7,2020

Hironobu HATTORI (Mr.), patent attorney, and Akira Watanabe (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, made a presentation at 5th International Online Conference “Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” held in Moscow, Russia from October 1 to 2, 2020, through the internet.

PUBLICATIONS

September 29,2020

Mr. Hideki TAKAISHI and Mr. Tsubasa YAMAMOTO, attorneys-at-law, published an article in Patent on copyright law interpretation .

NOTICES

September 7,2020

Holiday Notice for September 21 & 22

PUBLICATIONS

August 28,2020

Reiko TONOMURA (Ms.), attorney at law and patent attorney, authored the article regarding a legislative bill of the Plant Variety Protection and Seed Act.

LECTURES

August 26,2020

Hideki TAKAISHI (Mr.), attorney at law & patent attorney, will give a lecture titled as “Points of Intellectual Property Management” at Monthly Seminars Osaka of LES Japan.　

PUBLICATIONS

August 11,2020

Yasumasa SASAKI (Mr.) authored the article “Recent Trends in the Examination of Antibody Drug and Food Use Inventions and Their International Comparison” which was published in Patent by the JPAA .

AWARDS

August 3,2020

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in IAM Patent 1000 and ASIA IP

NOTICES

July 27,2020

Holiday Notice for August 10, 2020

NOTICES

July 2,2020

Holiday Notice for July 23 & July 24

PUBLICATIONS

June 25,2020

Kei IIDA, attorney at law and patent attorney, wrote the article “Unification of Judicial Precedents under Article 102, Paragraph 1 by IP High Court Grand Panel Decision” published in Jurist by Yuhikaku.

NOTICES

May 28,2020

The JPO announced a “Knowledge Collection of IP Strategy Designers Dispatching Project 2019”, 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.

NOTICES

May 19,2020

Attn: Clients Affected by the Covid-19 Situation

NOTICES

April 17,2020

Holiday Notice for April 29 & May 2 ~ May 6

NOTICES

March 23,2020

Tsubasa YAMAMOTO (Mr.), attorney at law, was awarded the “Encouragement Prize” as an IP specialist of startups, an IP BASE AWARD of the Japan Patent Office.

PUBLICATIONS

March 10,2020

The article “For Effective Damages — Amendment of Patent Act in 2019” written by Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, was published in Jurist No. 1541 by YUHIKAKU.

NOTICES

March 6,2020

PUBLICATIONS

March 6,2020

Tsubasa YAMAMOTO (Mr.), attorney at law, authored a book regarding IP strategy for startups which was published by Keiso Shobo K.K.

LECTURES

March 6,2020

Tsubasa YAMAMOTO (Mr.), attorney at law, is giving a lecture titled “IP Strategy for Startups” at the Accelerator program held by Tokyo Metropolis.

NOTICES

March 6,2020

Holiday Notice for March 20, 2020

NOTICES

February 17,2020

Holiday Notice for February 24, 2020

NOTICES

January 28,2020

Holiday Notice for February 11, 2020

AWARDS

January 17,2020

Ranked Band 1 in “Intellectual Property:Domestic-Japan” of Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020

NOTICES

December 27,2019

Obituary Notice

PUBLICATIONS

December 5,2019

The article “IP Judgement Flash Report” written by Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, regarding the IP High Court Grand Panel Judgement on the VISCOUS COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING CARBON DIOXIDE Case was published in Jurist by YUHIKAKU.

PUBLICATIONS

December 4,2019

The article “Tokyo District Court Judgement on the SPREADER FOR OSTEOTOMY Case” written by Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, was published in Patent Study by INPIT.

NOTICES

December 1,2019

Holiday Notice for Dec. 28, 2019 ~ Jan. 5, 2020 & Jan. 13, 2020

AWARDS

November 13,2019

Awarded “Japan Trademark IP Firm of 2019” at Asia IP Awards

PUBLICATIONS

October 29,2019

The article entitled “Patent Law Issues—A Comprehensive Analysis” by Hideki, TAKAISHI(Mr.), an attorney at law and patent attorney, was published in the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA).

NOTICES

October 28,2019

Holiday Notice for November 4, 2019

NOTICES

October 8,2019

Holiday Notice for October 22, 2019

NOTICES

October 1,2019

Holiday Notice for October 14, 2019

AWARDS

September 25,2019

Ranked Tier 1 in Asia IP Patent Survey 2019

AWARDS

September 25,2019

Ranked “Outstanding” in Asialaw Profiles 2020

PUBLICATIONS

September 17,2019

Shinichiro TANAKA (Mr.) and Masakazu KOBAYASHI (Mr.) et al. co-authored the book entitled Japanese Patent Law Cases and Comments (Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law) which was published by Wolters Kluwer.

PUBLICATIONS

September 6,2019

Reiko TONOMURA (Ms.) co-authored the book series entitled Legal Counseling on Agribusiness Law I・II which was published by Seirin Shoin.

NOTICES

September 2,2019

Holiday Notice for September 16 & 23, 2019

AWARDS

August 28,2019

Nakamura & Partners Highly Ranked in IAM Patent 1000

CONFERENCE

August 14,2019

Hironobu HATTORI (Mr.) and Hideki TAKAISHI (Mr.) attended the 2019 BIO International Convention.

PUBLICATIONS

August 6,2019

The article entitled “Rice Milk Case-Challenges in Support Requirements” by Hideki, TAKAISHI(Mr.), an attorney at law and patent attorney, was published in the Intellectual Property Management Magazine.

LECTURES

July 31,2019

Yasumasa SASAKI (Mr.), patent attorney, is giving the lecture “Comparison of Examination Practices for Medical-use Inventions Whose Intended Use Is Expressed by a Mechanism in Japan, the U.S., and Europe” on June 10, at a seminar organized by the JPAA.

NOTICES

July 29,2019

Holiday Notice for August 12, 2019

LECTURES

July 24,2019

Naoki OKUMURA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, is giving the lecture “Latest Trends of Japanese IP Law on Advanced Technology and Patent Strategy” on July 16, at the Daini Tokyo Bar Association.

NOTICES

July 1,2019

Holiday Notice for July 15, 2019

AWARDS

June 14,2019

Ranked Tier 1 in Asia IP Trademark Survey 2019

LECTURES

June 13,2019

Hideki TAKAISHI (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, is giving the lecture “Patent Law Issues—A Comprehensive Analysis” on July 4 at the JAFBIC Second Lecture Series of 2019.

PUBLICATIONS

June 7,2019

Attorneys in our firm contributed to Legal Counseling on Patent and Utility Models I・IIwhich were published by Seirin Shoin.

LECTURES

June 4,2019

Reiko TONOMURA (Ms.), attorney at law and patent attorney, is providing a lecture at the MAFF’s Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Training Center on the protection of trade secrets and know-how in the agricultural business sector on June 6.

LECTURES

June 3,2019

Kei IIDA (Mr.), attorney at law and patent attorney, is giving a presentation at a workshop at the LESI 2019 Annual Conference in Yokohama, Japan on May 28.

CONFERENCE

May 8,2019

Participation in the symposium IP: THE ENGINE OF INNOVATION in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

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