Sugimura & Partners

Japan

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Overview

Sugimura & Partners has a strong reputation for its intellectual property prosecution practice. The firm helps clients with patent, design and trade mark prosecutions, trial and appeal proceedings before the Japan’s Patent Office, counselling and opinion work, due diligence, unfair competition matters and litigation. The team is active in various sectors such as electronics, industrial manufacturing, chemicals and information technology. 

Kenji Sugimura and Koji Sugimura are managing partners at firm. Kenichi Nakayama is the director of the IP operations of the firm. His practice and focuses on trade mark prosecutionand unfair competition. Gaku Okamoto specialises in litigation and legal services. Other key figures are Tatsuya Sawada, Tetsuo Tsukanaka, Kazuyuki Tomita, Yuko Muramatsu, Haruo Awano, Hayato Maeda and Takayoshi Kawai. 

Testimonial

2023

"They provide an excellent service and are reliable."

"They are very helpful, we receive quick responses and always good advice."

"Sugimura & Partners is a team of highly equipped professionals with in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. We get great service at low costs which are liked and appreciated by our clients."

"The attorneys of Sugimura & Partners have a background in technology and specialist legal knowledge in the field of industrial and intellectual property, which enables them easily to understand the needs of clients. What’s more, Sugimura & Partners helps our clients to obtain and enforce their IP rights by providing wide-ranging and high-quality services, including patent prosecution, trademark registration, patent/trademark search and IP-related litigation."

"Their team is very large and covers all technology sectors well. Their communication in English is excellent, and we meet their team members regularly in Tokyo and at international conferences."

"They are a friendly team with quality service."

"We appreciate their out-of-the-box thinking and effective solutions."

"We like how the firm provides specialised services to individual clients through its rational and systematic system for various complex cases in the IP field."

"We value the team's high responsiveness, high-quality advice, and that they have all relevant technical fields covered."

"We value their seriousness, agility and reliability."

2022 client testimonials

"Sugimura gave us a good impression and they were able to adapt their way of working to fit our routines in a very flexible way. They are very competitive when it comes to pricing."

"The firm has a high standard when it comes to IP knowledge and service. On top of that we have great contacts who are always keen on assisting us. They make us feel important to them and make sure we are happy with their service as well as the pricing."