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We would like to inform clietns of the services we currently provide.
Currently, we mainly handle "Prior Art Search", "Clearance Search," and "Technology Trend Survey.
We also provide "Screening" service, which only screens the list of publications provided by our clients, "Documentation" service, which we document and deliver publications provided by our clients, "Collection of information on the Examination Process and Duration of Rights" service, which we collect information on the examination process and duration of right related to the publications provided by our clients, and "Collection of Academic Information and Venture Business Information", which we collect academic information and venture business information related to the technical information provided by our clients.
We will conduct a search to determine if there are any patent applications in the public domain prior to filing a patent application or a request for patent application examination.
Sample of Deliverables(in preparation)
At this time, we do not provide information provision other companies' patent applications, nor do we conduct prior art searches for the purpose of invalidating other companies' patents (invalidity search).
We plan to provide this service in the future. We will post the information on our website as soon as it is ready.
We will conduct a search to ascertain whether or not the practices in the client's contemplated business may infringe on the patent rights of other companies.
Sample of Deliverables(in preparation)
When a client is seeking to enter a market or at various stages of research and development, we conduct research to identify technology development trends, publicly known technologies, and trends in related fields.
Sample of Deliverables Techonology Trends Surveys(Without noise reduction)(in preparation)
We will screen the list of publications provided by clients for the purpose of prior art and infringement prevention.
We will send clients the extracted publications as a publications list with bibliographic information entered in Microsoft Excel.
We would be glad to discuss client's requests regarding items such as bibliographic information in the list of publications.
In such cases…
We can provide screening services when the clients do not have the time to spare.
Fees and delivery time will depend on the technical field, number of publications, etc.
Please feel free to contact us.
Sample of Deliverables Screening (in preparation)
We will provide clients with a 1 to 3 page Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Word slides for each publications clients provide us with, based on the claims.
In such cases…
We can provide documentation of publications when the clients do not have the time to spare or as part of a monthly work routine, such as a periodic search.
Fees and delivery time will depend on the content of the documentation, number of publications.
Please feel free to contact us.
Please refer to the sample deliverables for examples of documentation using Microsoft PowerPoint for the case where the documentation consists of "claims" only and "claims + corresponding parts in the embodiment of the invention".
We will collect information on the examination process and duration of right of the publications provided by clients, using commercial patent databases and databases provided by the patent offices of various countries and institutions.
We will provide clients with the information in the form of lists or slides in Microsoft Office.
In such cases…
We can provide information verification and collection services when the clients do not have the time to spare.
Fees and delivery time will depend on the number of publications and the organization of the country/region to be verified, etc.
Please feel free to contact us.
Sample of Deliverables Collection of information on the Examination Process (in preparation)
Sample of Deliverables Collection of information on the Duration of Rights (in preparation)
We will collect academic information or venture business infomation related to the technical information provided by our clients using internet searches and free/commercial databases.
We will provide clients with a Microsoft Excel list of 50-100 highly relevant academic information or venture business infomation.
Fees and delivery time will depend on the technical field, media to be researched, etc.
Please feel free to contact us.
Sample of Deliverables Collection of Academic Infomation (in preparation)
The following is a guide to the flow from Search Request to Delivery when the clients request a search at our company.
We would like to inform clients of the commercial/free databases that we use when conducting our searches.
Patent information service provided by Panasonic Solution Technology Co., Ltd.
(We are contracted to provide search services for domestic, US, European, PCT, World, Chinese, and Japanese designs.)
Business information service provided by G-Search Limited.
(Newspaper and magazine articles / corporate information, credit information / patent,law, science and technology / marketing information etc.)
Japan Platform for Patent Infomation
(Patent information service provided by the National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training)
Advanced Patent information service provided by the National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training.
We use various services of the National Diet Library, public libraries, and university libraries.
Online services provided by the National Diet Library
Online services provided by the National Institute of Informatics
CiNii Research is a simple interface that allows you to easily cross-search not only literature, but also research data from external collaborating institutions and institutional repositories, and other sources including research project data on KAKEN. (refer to CiNii Research)
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