On Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct, 30, due to Hurricane Sandy, our Philadelphia office and New York office will be closed. If you have any urgent case please contact our Tokyo office. Thank you! Tokyo office’s contact: TEL:011-81-3-3230-1244 (English…
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In an effort to ramp up their brand overseas, Toshiba Corp. announced yesterday that it will be stepping up its overseas patent application filings from its current 51% of their combined domestic and international patent application filings to 70% by the year 2014…
Three attorneys and technical advisers from Keisen attended the 2012 Design of Medical Devices Conference(DMD) held at University Hotel Minneapolis on April 10-12, 2012. DMD is the world’s premiere medical devices conference consisting of a 2 day technical session and…
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Keisen ‘s attorneys, Taro Yaguchi, Jun-ichiro Yanagi and Nahoko Ono will be attending the INTA 134rd Annual Meeting, which takes place in Washington DC from the May 5th until the May 9th.
As you may recall, the JPO started this Program in April 2009 aiming to alleviate applicants’ financial burden under the global economic recession begun in 2008. Under this program, applicants could defer the examination fee payment for approximately one year….
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Our senior partner Taro Yaguchi will present as a speaker at the 2011 Patent Information Fair & Conference in Tokyo on November 11, 2011. Based on his experience and actual cases, he will speak about the reality of international licensing…
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Our senior partner Taro Yaguchi will present as a speaker at Biotech 2011 conference in Philadelphia on October 24, 2011. His presentation focuses on problems and opportunities encountered by Foreign Biotech companies doing business in the United States as part…
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This Sunday, April 10, 2011, marks the crowning event of the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, Sakura Sunday. Held in the Horticultural Center in Fairmount Park, Sakura Sunday commemorates the season by celebrating Japanese food, music and art….
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Partner, Junichiro Yanagi and Toyomi Ohara will be attending the 2011 AIPLA Spring meeting in San Francisco from 12 to 14 May. If you would like to arrange a meeting during the conference with them, please email to jyanagi@keisenassociates.com ?
The Japan Patent Office’s (JPO) new guidelines for filing an appeal against an examiner’s “Notice of Final Refusal” will go into effect April 1, 2009. The JPO is responding to a long-standing complaint among Japanese applicants who’ve been frustrated by…
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