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firm are communicating with our clients via E-mail, every
day. You could also get in contact with each attorney
of the firm by E-mail. If you are not current client of
the firm and trying obtaining legal advice from the firm,
please set up an appointment in advance. In order to avoid
client conflict, the firm could not accept confidential
information or factual details that you try to provide
us to get legal advice. It would be appreciated if you
become our client, in order to get better legal advice
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| Schedule of official fees |
| Schedule of attorney fees |
| Form of General Power of Attorney |
| Our Patent Filing Procedure before JPO |
1. Filing a patent application:
Our Firm translates an freign patent specification into Japanese and files
it as translated.
2. Filing a request for patentability examination:
Our Firm files the request and also amends pending Japanese claims in accordance
with the foreign patent claims, if issues and necessary.
3. Rejection by an Examiner of JPO:
Our Firm translates a reason for rejection and parts of cited references
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4. Amendment & Remarks against the Office Action:
Our Firm prepares Amendment & Remarks in Japanese, translates them
into English which sent to the Client and files them after approval.
Alternatively, Our Firm prepares them in accordance with the Client's instruction.
5. Final rejection by the examiner:
The final rejection may indicate that some claims are patentable and others
not. In such a case, an appeal would be lodged for patetable claims only
and dvisional application would be filed for non-patentable claims for
safe.
It is to be noted that the all of the claims would be rejected because
it inclueds non-patentable claims in the appeal.
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