SERVICES | We, Nagai International Patent Bureau are especially adept at protection of intellectual property right and infringement litigation.

: Services include applications for patents, registered utility models, designs, and trademarks. Our bureau prepares your application documents while giving detailed consideration to the utilization of rights. For example, if a client seeks to acquire a patent right, we begin by ensuring that we accurately understand the essence of the invention in order to properly describe the invention, and then prepare the specification with the aim of enabling the client to exert a powerful exclusive strength when utilizing the right. Knowledge gained through extensive litigation experience equips us with invaluable feedback in this process, and enables us to produce high-quality specifications.

: Our close partnerships with patent agents and attorneys in firms from over 35 countries around the world enable us to assist our clients in acquiring rights overseas accurately and promptly. Business development is especially active in Asian developing countries in recent years, and with our substantial experience in rights acquisition in these developing countries across Asia, we are confident that we can offer extensive support for our clients seeking for overseas rights acquisition.

: Patent searches are conducted in order to accurately ascertain the differences between a newly created invention and the prior art, and appropriately describe the essence of the invention in the specification. Searches may also be conducted to determine the direction of research and development and ensure that a product can be manufactured and sold without any fears of infringing on another party’s rights. Thus, we believe that our clients recognize the vital importance of accurate searches. At our bureau, we conduct highly accurate searches using not only the search tools published by the Japan Patent Office and other overseas patent offices but also commercial search software. Our search capabilities also extend to utility model searches, design searches, and trademark searches. In particular, given the importance of accurate trademark searches prior to filing trademark applications, we conduct thorough trademark searches with the additional power of commercial search software.

: When preparing to manufacture and sell a product, it is necessary to examine whether the product infringes on a patent/utility model right of another party. There are also cases in which our clients would like to ascertain whether another party’s patent/utility model right can be assigned or destroyed. We provide opinions and expert appraisals of the highest quality, backed by our years of experience in appeals and litigation, and we can offer pertinent advice on how to utilize these opinions and expert appraisals for the maximum effect.

: Copyrights are widely known, but it would be more accurate to regard them as a set of divisible rights consisting of reproduction rights, public broadcast rights, and the like. They also encompass moral rights, neighboring rights, and others, and thus copyrights are quite complex and difficult to understand for the general public. Since copyrights fall under the umbrella of intellectual property, we can also handle requests regarding serving as an agent or intermediate when executing contracts for copyrights. Further, since litigation based on unfair competition laws often arises together with litigation related to patents and trademarks, we are able to assist our clients at the courts regarding matters related to unfair competition.