TRADEMARK

• Procedure for obtaining Trademark (Flow Chart)

• Our Services

• Filing Requirements

• Legal Fees

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* Our Services *

Prosecution:

KOSHIKAWA & Co.’s attorney and engineers have extensive experience in both filing and procuring trademarks. Our capabilities and expertise allow us to represent and obtain trademarks for a wide variety of Fortune 100 of Companies, universities; governmental organizations, small and mid-size companies and start-ups. Additionally, our offices are fully compatible with the JPO’s latest electronic filing regulations and can provide our clients with the electronic documents and conversions necessary to file and prosecute trademarks.

Opinions:

KOSHIKAWA & Co.’s attorney and engineers are able to guide clients through the complex opposition process, whether they intend to cancel the trademark of a potential competitor or if their trademark is being opposed.

Licensing:

KOSHIKAWA & Co.’s attorney and engineers have wide-spread experience preparing and negotiating licensing agreements among both trademark holders and those desiring to obtain the rights to trademarks. Our staffs have unique capabilities in the licensing field especially in the area of negotiations between U.S./European companies and Japanese companies. We also routinely review licensing agreements and provide advice opinions regarding existing agreements.

Trademark Search:

KOSHIKAWA & Co.’s attorney and professionals excel in performing broad-reaching trademark searches. Our searches canvass the JPO Trademark Office records of all registered, pending, expired, canceled or abandoned trademarks and service marks. Additionally our search services can be tailored to target other marks, registered or not, that may be potentially infringing, confusing or ripe for licensing.

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* Filing Requirements *

For filing a Japanese trademark application, the following documents/information are required.

1. Trademark to be registered (One sample of the trademark is necessary)
2. Goods and/or services to be registered
3. Applicant
1. Full name
2. Full address
3. Nationality
4. Filing Detail
1. Filing date
2. Serial number and the name of the country of the basic application, if the application is a Convention case (Serial number can be submitted later, if it is not available at the time of filing.)
3. Certified copy of priority document (This document has to be filed within three months from the filing date of Japan. No extension is possible.)
5. Power of Attorney form
   (which should be executed by a representative of the applicant. No legalization or notarization is necessary.)
Note:
Under the current Japanese practice, an executed Power of Attorney form need not be submitted to the Japan Patent Office for initial filing. Nevertheless, we have been asking our foreign clients to send us an executed Power of Attorney for those cases entrusted to us, for the following reasons:

1. Our receipt of an executed Power of Attorney ensures that we received an explicit legal authorization of the entrusted case from our client, and
2. Our receipt of an executed Power of Attorney enables our immediate submission of the same, which is absolutely necessary when proceeding with withdrawal of the pending application, filing an appeal from the final rejection, an answer to opposition and the like, whenever such occasions arise, apart from initial filing of applications as described above.
Please refer Sample on Power of Attorney menu if needed. (Download)

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