Trademarks

Trademarks

From first free consultation till registration and beyond - we have the market know-how to ensure your trademarks achieve their maximum financial potential - in Japan and around the globe.

Effective trademarks & branding are often key to an organization’s identity and commercial success. Our trademark attorneys have the necessary international and local market know-how to ensure your trademark is fully protected and achieves its maximum financial potential.

Trademarks help consumers distinguish the goods or services of one organization from another. Trademarks can be words or letters, names, logos, shapes of a product, colours or smells or combinations of these. Many famous brands are trademarked.


These IP assets are often key to an organization’s identity and commercial success. Our trademark attorneys have the necessary international and local market know-how to ensure your trademark is fully protected and achieves its maximum financial potential.

Comprehensive TM Coverage

Global Strategy

Comprehensive TM Coverage

We offer a broad range of trademark-related services including international and domestic registrations and enforcement, advice on unique Japanese practices, portfolio management, registrability and infringement searches, licensing proposals and negotiations, and injunction or compensation proceedings.

Global Strategy

We recognize that your brand strategy will often include obtaining and working trademark rights across numerous IP jurisdictions worldwide. To that end, we have cultivated long-standing personal and professional relations with trusted IP attorneys and firms in every advanced and industrializing country: a network you can leverage to provide comprehensive protection in a timely and effective manner.

Our broad range of trademark-related services include international and domestic registrations, advice on Japanese practice, portfolio management, registrability, licensing proposals and negotiations.

Our trademark related services include »

  • Trademark filing, prosecution and registration into Japan and overseas
  • Registrability and infringement searches
  • Management of trademark portfolios
  • Renewals & Reclassifications
  • Expert opinions 
  • Infringement proceedings
  • Rights transfers 
  • Collaboration with Asia-Pacific and global partner firms
  • Trademark enforcement and defence
  • Commercial opportunities and threat assessment
  • Market watches
  • Domain name disputes
  • Due diligence and TM valuation advice
  • Licensing
  • Injunctions and compensation demands

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