In many cases, as you expand your business, you need to apply for additional patches of trademark rights, and it is not uncommon you make inadvertent omissions.
In addition, even if you file additional applications, making strategic applications will lead to ensuring brand safety and reducing costs.
We support strategic application procedures in countries around the world.

We will check whether the trademarks really needed for your business are owned and managed by using the customer's owned trademark data, the published data of the patent office in each country, and, if necessary, paid data. In addition to simply delivering the results of the surveys of our own trademarks that we have extracted, we also assist in formulating strategies so that we can not only compensate for the omission of the current situation, such as business strategies and competitor measures, but also facilitate consideration of additional applications for the future.
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Through our partner local agents, it is possible to file trademark applications not only in Japan, but all over the world. Depending on the country of application, there are countries where English cannot be understood, but since we have multinational members who can handle languages from all over the world, we can immediately contact a local agent by phone, and facilitate smooth communication without miscommunication during application procedures and interim processing.
We are sure it will be useful in a trouble, such as filing trademark application in countries where you don't know well about the procedure.
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When providing new services or selling new products, or when establishing a new subsidiary, we will investigate in advance whether or not the trademarks of the service name, product name, and company name that you want to use have been obtained by a third party to prevent troubles.
We can also search and analyze competing pending and registered trademarks to find trends.

We will manage the renewal date and send you a notification of renewal availability at the time of renewal. We will adjust the notification timing and method according to the customer's request, so please feel free to leave it to us.
Procedures such as the transfer of rights to the Patent Office of each country (name change) and the change of company name and address will also be supported. Trademark management, which has become complicated due to business expansion and the replacement of staff, can be streamlined, reducing the risks of missing updates and mistakes in registered information.

We use our proprietary cloud-based intellectual property data management tool [BRANTECT] to manage owned trademark data and the status of procedures. In addition to file wrappers and records of interactions with agents, you can also upload internal review materials at the time of trademark application, so even if the person in charge changes, you can understand the past history and prepare renewal after 10 years from registration. In addition, it is convenient to take inventory of owned trademarks, as the data of owned trademarks can be output as a list by country of application and by expiration date of renewal. We can issue a demo account for you to try it out.

A third party applies for and registers a trademark related to your brand without permission, and once the trademark right is registered, it is difficult to retrieve it. There are risks that it will be enormously expensive to recover or become a long-term war.
In order to protect your brands globally, it is essential to take measures against pro-filing and post-filing applications.

In order to prevent misappropriated applications by third parties, we monitor the public notice and registration status of all 45 classes of trademarks in 179 countries/regions around the world, and send timely emails as soon as we detect character and figure trademarks that have been set for monitoring in advance. In addition, in China, which has a culture of kanji, even if the pronunciation is exactly the same, it is an ideographic character, so if you change the face of the kanji notation, it will become dissimilar, and many companies will suffer from misappropriated applications without realizing it. We make it possible to detect trademarks similar to the notation as well as Roman.

Even if a trademark is applied for without permission from a third party, there are ways to defend against it without giving up. Objections to public notices and trial to cancel registration are common, but the system differs depending on the country. We have built a network with partners around the world, and we have many employees who can speak languages other than English, so we can provide appropriate support. If you have any problems, please contact us immediately.