IP Menu - Japan - Intellectual Property Resources

COUNTRY	JAPAN (JP) Government Patent Office IP Firms / IP Organisations Patent Resources Trade Mark Resources Design Resources Domain Name Resources	Copyright Resources Plant Breeders Rights Circuit Layout Resources Company Resources Trade Practices IP Case Law Resources National Library / Other

GOVERNMENT	Japanese Government Entry Point
PATENT OFFICE	Japanese Patent Office
IP FIRMS / ORGANISATIONS	ATTORNEY LISTINGS IP FIRMS IP Firms of Japan See IP Firms of Japan for more information about Intellectual Property firms in Japan. INVENTOR ORGANISATIONS Japanese Institue of Invention and Innovation (JIII) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATIONS Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) The JPAA is the professional association of patent attorneys, who are the only certified industrial property experts in Japan. Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center (APIC) The APIC provides training courses and holds seminars to increase the understanding of government and private sector personnel relating to intellectual property. Japan Design Protection Association (JDPA) Japan Foods Patent Center (JFPC) Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO) Industrial Property Cooperation Center (IPCC) Patent Application Processing Center (PAPC) Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA)
PATENTS	RESOURCES Delphion / IBM Intellectual Property Network The Delphion Intellectual Property Network (IPN) provides access to a wide variety of patent data collections and related information. Searching, browsing, and viewing of patents is free. The IPN also features the IP Pages, a directory of patent and IP-related resources. Optional fee-based services include document delivery, licensing buttons, data mining and analysis tools and value added content from leading industry providers. The IPN is e-commerce enabled to allow immediate electronic delivery of many services. This service provides coverage of (a) JP Patent text and images from January 1994 to present. (b) INPADOC is one of the most comprehensive patent collections in the world. It contains patent family documents and legal status information from 65 and 22 patent offices, respectively. The Intellectual Property Network brings together both of these pieces of information into a single searchable database and makes available 30 million patent family documents and 45 million legal status actions. esp@cenet Japanese Patent Information on esp@cenet from Japan from 1973 for bibliographic information and 1920 for facsimile images. For coverage see esp@cenet Coverage Page. Japan IP Resource The Japan IP Resource website provides English language IP News from Japan. The site is managed by Shoichi Okuyama, a Japanese patent attorney who currently is the editor of AIPPI Japan's Japanese and English journals and an active member and contributor of the AIPPI case reporter) JAPIO/JPAT Patent Abstracts of Japan is hosted on the Questel-Orbit, Dialog and STN Networks - This database provides coverage of unexamined Japanese patent applications and provides English language abstracts. ($) PAJ CD-ROM PAJ CD-ROM database (by the European Patent Office) contains English-language abstracts of unexamined Japanese patent applications (i.e. A-publications) from 1976. Documents are presented as bibliographic text, including title and abstract, and, where available, the image of a representative drawing. ($) Patent Abstracts of Japan Patent Abstracts of Japan in English hosted on the Japanese Patent Office website as part of the Intellectual Property Digital Library. Clicking on the "DETAILS" button will provide an English Language Translation. PATOLIS (Patent Online Information System) is the sole database in Japan specialising in documents from the filed of Intellectual Property. The database contains the complete collection of patents since 1995, and Japanese utility models, trade marks and designs. Also available by the European Patent Office. ($) ReaD ReaD is a directory database which provides various Science and Technology information in Japan. LEGISLATION CLEA World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access. Extensive database of Intellectual Property related legislation for this country. Coverage extends to over 35 countries.
TRADEMARKS	RESOURCES Japanese Trademark Database Japanese Trademark Search (in English) is hosted on the National Centre for Industrial Property Information and Training (NCIPI) website as part of the Industrial Property Digital Library. Japanese Figure Trademarks database Japanese Figure Trademark Search (in English) is hosted on the Japanese Patent Office website as part of the Intellectual Property Digital Library. Japanese Well Known Trademarks Japanese Well Known Trademarks (in English) is hosted on the Japanese Patent Office website as part of the Intellectual Property Digital Library. List of Goods and Services List of Goods and Services (in English) is hosted on the Japanese Patent Office website as part of the Intellectual Property Digital Library. LEGISLATION CLEA World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access. Extensive database of Intellectual Property related legislation for this country. Coverage extends to over 35 countries.
DESIGNS	RESOURCES LEGISLATION CLEA World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access. Extensive database of Intellectual Property related legislation for this country. Coverage extends to over 35 countries.
DOMAIN NAMES	RESOURCES Japan (.jp) Search the WHOIS Domain Name Registry
COPYRIGHT	RESOURCES LEGISLATION CLEA World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access. Extensive database of Intellectual Property related legislation for this country. Coverage extends to over 35 countries.
PLANT BREEDERS RIGHTS	RESOURCES LEGISLATION CLEA World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access. Extensive database of Intellectual Property related legislation for this country. Coverage extends to over 35 countries.
CIRCUIT LAYOUT	RESOURCES LEGISLATION CLEA World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access. Extensive database of Intellectual Property related legislation for this country. Coverage extends to over 35 countries.
COMPANY & BUSINESS	RESOURCES Financial Services Agency LEGISLATION
TRADE PRACTICES	RESOURCES Fair Trade Commission LEGISLATION
IP CASE LAW
NATIONAL LIBRARY/ OTHER	National Diet Library Japan Yellow Pages (Telephone Directory)