OKUDA & ASSOCIATES provides a high level of services in the following areas of practice before the Japan Patent Office, while also specializing in the handling of foreign applications. Enhanced with the smoothness and efficiency of our administrative section, which is another thing we boast, we deliver you a refreshing level of satisfaction.
- Japanese patent applications
- Japanese utility model applications
- foreign patent/utility model applications
(PCT, Paris Convention, etc.)
- prosecution of patent/utility model applications before the JPO
- appeal proceedings
- attorneys' opinions
- litigation
- prior art searches
- technical and legal translation
Below are just some of the technological fields in which we possess particular strength. In addition to these examples, we are strongly interested in the growing fields such as 3D printing, robotics, and optical/quantum computing.
- electronic devices & information devices (semiconductors, displays, data storage, image sensors, nanoelectronics, medical devices)
- optical devices & optoelectronics (lasers, optical waveguides, fiber optics, photonic devices, optical design)
- communications (smart appliances, cloud computing, network technologies)
- software (IT/ICT, control technologies, image processing, business models)
- energy (photovoltaic cells, secondary batteries, fuel cells, thermal storage, heat pumps, smart grids, wireless power transmission)
- chemistry & materials science (organic materials, inorganic materials, metals, magnets, polymers, ceramics, nanotechnologies)
- mechanics (engines, automobile and motorcycle mechanical parts, mechanical parts of electrical or electronic devices)
