Global services

Having been handling out-going applications to more than 100 countries as well as incoming applications, we are specialized in the protection of Intellectual Property on a global scale.　We are always in touch with up-to-date information collected from our foreign tie-up patent agents and try to keep well versed in their laws and systems.

Countries with outstanding cases (as of February 2005):

Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benelux, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia

**With the increasing number of international applications, we are seeking to expand our business contacts further. If you are interested in establishing business relations with our firm, please feel free to contact us.

Our services

In order to protect our clients’ valuable intellectual asset, we offer a complete range of intellectual property services: conducting searches for prior arts and similar registrations; filing and prosecuting applications both in and outside the country; and handling trial affairs. Further, we provide our clients with our industrial property expertise (patent, utility model, trade mark, design) which will be a key to their corporate strategies. Our focused and experienced patent attorneys and engineers cover variety of fields as electronics, electricity, mechanics, chemistry, biotechnology, medicine as well as business model and promise satisfaction of all the clients with the best legal representation.

About us

Kojima & Associates can trace its root back more than a quarter of a century ago. It started as International Patent Information Center, which was renamed Kojima International Patent Office, and became the present Kojima & Associates. Now it has grown to be a national firm with branches in Kagoshima and Hokkaido. Our Head Office has been relocated to Ginza area, the center of Tokyo in 2003 (0 min. from Yurakucho Station; 5 min. walk from Tokyo Station) for even an easier access by our clients and colleagues all over the world.