Japan Practice Department
Introduction
Our Experiences
The Japanese Practice Group has represented numerous well-known Japanese companies and subsidiaries in Taiwan, in corporate legal affairs including M&A, labor, personal data, legal compliance, and corporate malfeasance, trademark applications, opposition, invalidation, infringement evidence collection, and litigations, and patent application, invalidation proceedings, and litigation.
Our Teams
The Japanese Practice Group comprises corporate, patent, and trademark groups. Our team members include plenty of Taiwan patent attorneys and Taiwan laywers with the ability to provide services in Japanese.
Our Expertises
- Services satisfying the needs of every client in plain language
- Efficient solutions
- Services suitable for business practices of Japanese companies
Scope of Services
【Legal】
- M&A, investment in Taiwan
- Finance (loans, financial products)
- Corporate malfeasance
- Various government permits and approvals, import-related regulations, and land-related regulations
- Drafting employment rules and other internal rules; labor disputes and other labor law-related services
- Personal Data Protection Act, Consumer Protection Act, and product liability
- Merger filings, cartels, and other antitrust law-related services
- Review of agreements pertaining to energy-related businesses and public procurements, and disputes relating to those agreements
- Disputes related to intellectual property rights (negotiations, drafting warning letters)
- Other civil, criminal, and administrative litigations and arbitrations, mediations
- Corporate reorganization, bankruptcy
- Closure of offices in Taiwan
- Drafting and reviewing various agreements
- Translation of various legal documents
【Patents】
- Applications to the Intellectual Property Office of Taiwan for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents
- Applications to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (Mainland China) for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents.
- Applications to other foreign intellectual property offices (including EPO) for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents, and hub applications together with applications in Taiwan and Mainland China.
- Prior art searches, collecting materials to be used in invalidation actions, number searches, research relating to infringement, landscape searches, patent mapping.
- Monitoring patent applications by other companies
- Obtaining patent publications
- Validity assessments
- Infringement assessments
- Discovery of inventions and preparation of patent specifications
- Translating descriptions and technical documents, or reviewing translations
- Advice on prior user rights and supporting notarization to prove such
- Invalidation proceedings
- Providing information regarding application for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents
- Appealing against decisions of rejection or invalidation
- Administrative litigations and civil litigations related to registration of invention patents, utility model patents, design patents
- Intellectual property valuation
- Annuity managements
【Trademarks】
- Trademark research, applications for registration
- Suggesting trademark protection strategies
- Applications for opposition, trial for invalidation and trial for cancellation, or assisting responses to these applications
- Transferring or licensing trademarks, or registering pledges on the trademarks
- Management of trademarks and copyrights
- Customs registrations
- Drafting and reviewing contracts relating to trademark and copyright
- Disputes on trademarks and copyrights, such as suggesting strategies regarding infringement litigations, consulting, investigations, evidence-collection, and handling litigations