In recent years, it has become significantly more important for companies to exercise appropriate management, protection, and utilization of their intellectual property. In addition, the increasing globalization of business activities has made it necessary to respond to developments on both a domestic and an international scale. Kitahama Partners has a strong track record and a wealth of experience in handling countless cases in a wide range of intellectual property-related fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our firm has experience in all legal fields related to copyrights, designs, patents, utility models, trademarks, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, and other facets of intellectual property; our services in these fields include the handling of license agreements, franchising, assignment of rights, and other transactions involving intellectual property (including the preparation, review, and negotiation of agreements), litigation involving intellectual property rights or the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, patent invalidation trials, actions against counterfeiting from overseas, and wide-ranging advice on a daily basis regarding other intellectual property issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, our firm has created an \u201cIP Task Force (IPTF)\u201d consisting of attorneys with practical experience in various areas of intellectual property which engages in continuous knowledge-building to provide more highly specialized and robust legal services in the IP field, and which is always gathering new experience, knowledge and information for the benefit of our clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, we are home to many attorneys who have studied overseas and obtained legal credentials abroad, and we have constructed a network of law firms in various countries. In international cases, we partner as needed with law firms in the relevant countries, allowing us to handle the global business expansion of our clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":39,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"practice-category":[5],"class_list":["post-325","practice","type-practice","status-publish","hentry","practice-category-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n