We access several regularly-updated Japanese databases covering issued patents and application disclosures to map out the patent landscape in Japan pertaining to your products. The resulting documents are evaluated in a systematic and hands-on way. Every FTO search project is concluded with a comprehensive yet concise and well-structured report, supplemented by partial translations of Japanese documents where necessary.

If you intend to invalidate a patent granted in Japan or any other country, a prior art search in Japanese databases - covering both patent and scientific literature - may uncover the crucial document necessary to nullify the patent. Our Japanese patent attorneys and multi-lingual technical experts will design database searches, interpret the outcome and furnish you with a conclusive report that includes translations of relevant excerpts from Japanese documents.

• Prior art searches geared to specific embodiments
• Infringement searches
• Excerpts from the Japanese Patent Register
• Full legal status searches, with or without translations and/or annotations
• Patent monitoring
• Competitor monitoring
• Subject-matter searches, with or without translations
• Patent assignee information.