Services and Pricing
$ 550
PCT national phase entry into Japan (fixed service fee)
$ 0.17
translation fee (from EN into JP) (per word)
$ 198
attorney's hourly rate
About
Hiroshi Higuchi is a founder of Allegro IP Law Firm, which was established separating from a long established Japanese IP law firm founded in 1973, in order to offer overseas clients the best IP services in Japan.
We have streamlined the firm’s system and strategy to exclusively focus on IP matters in Japan for foreign clients, so that we can provide our best services to clients in a timely, high quality, and cost effective manner. At our firm, only professionals having at least 20 years of IP-related experience are in charge of providing services in their respective fields of specialization.
In particular, among numerous Japanese law firms, our firm is a unique and exclusive boutique IP law firm that carries out the missions of supporting the most advanced venture companies and universities across the world in obtaining patent protection in Japan. To this end, we have been working with foreign associates and/or directly with foreign corporations and universities to understand cutting-edge research and to contribute to their patent protection. Further, we have taken on an associate professor at a leading university as an advisor not only to stay abreast of the latest findings but also to understand the manner in which inventions are developed at university laboratories.
In addition, we believe that our service fees are competitive among Japanese firms. It is our understanding that the venture companies and universities sometimes create inventions which are not directly linked to business initially but are potentially valuable, and therefore, we wish to keep the prosecution costs to be charged to our university clients to a minimum.
Work history
Yanagida & Associates - Head of foreign clients team
Sughrue Mion PLLC - trainee
Bridgestone Corporation - IP Department / IP Administration and License Unit
Education and qualifications
The University of Tokyo (B. S., Agricultural and Life Sciences)
Patent Attorney (Qualified as a Litigating Patent Attorney (“Huki-Benrishi”))
U. S. Patent Agent (limited recognition)
Publications
Speaker | New ruling on protection of extended pharmaceutical patent rights in Japan| AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute IP Practice in Japan Committee Pre-meeting: January 2019
Protection of adidas Three-Stripes trademark protection in Japan – INTA in San Francisco: May 2011
Speaker | CAFC – Cordis Corp. v. Boston Scientific Corp. (Written Description)| JPAA International Activities Center: April 2011
Speaker | IP High Court – Yokohama Rubber v. Yonex (Doctrine of Equivalents)| AIPLA Annual Meeting IP Practice in Japan Committee Pre-meeting: October 2009
