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Please note that the Japan Patent Office and our office are closed for holidays from December 28, 2024 through January 5, 2025.
Please be informed that any due date falling within the holiday period for filing with the JPO is automatically extended to the next business day.
We are proud to announce that we, K&P will have the honor of serving as a Silver Sponsor for the 2025 AIPPI World Congress, which will be held in Yokohama, Japan from September 13 to 16, 2025.
During this period, we will have a booth set up at the venue. If you are attending the Congress, we would be delighted if you could stop by and visit us.
For more information about the Congress, please refer to the link below.
Home - 2025 AIPPI World Congress - Yokohama
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Remote Work Currently in Place
As part of a state of emergency declared by government of Japan related to COVID-19, we have fully established remote work operations to ensure that there are no service disruptions, in which most of our staff are currently working remotely from home. Therefore, we may not be able to answer your phone calls at our office. In such a case, please contact us by e-mail to info@kawaguti.gr.jp.
We will continue to monitor the situation and inform you on this homepage as it develops.
We would very much appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
Sincerely,
KAWAGUTI & PARTNERS
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Firm Philosophy
With devout love for Intellectual Property(IP),
and as IP specialists with fiery passion,
pride and responsibility,
we will exert all of our might to continually offer IP services of the utmost quality
to support the development of our clients worldwide,
as well as science and technology worldwide.
Furthermore, through our IP services,
we will earnestly win the trust of clients from around the world step by step,
so that we will have an ideal workplace which will be our pride
where every employee will have a sense of confidence, satisfaction
and happiness above all.
Firm Motto - Course of Action
| Professionalism | We always perform our duties with a high sense of responsibility and pride as a professional in the field of intellectual property right, and concurrently strive to learn and acquire advanced and latest knowledge and skill required of a professional. |
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| Accuracy | We always perform our duties with accuracy, certainty and infallibility, and concurrently observe the deadline. |
| Tenacity | No matter how complex and difficult a case we may encounter, we never give up till the end and persevere to resolve the problem. |
| Agility | We always perform our duties with agility and speed, and respond with promptness. |
| Integrity | We always keep an attitude with integrity, candor and grace towards all stakeholders: all people concerned with our services including, not only our clients, but people at the JPO, courts, other patent firms, translation agents, and colleagues, and strive to foster beautiful relationships. |
- Professionalism
- We always perform our duties with a high sense of responsibility and pride as a professional in the field of intellectual property right, and concurrently strive to learn and acquire advanced and latest knowledge and skill required of a professional.
- Accuracy
- We always perform our duties with accuracy, certainty and infallibility, and concurrently observe the deadline.
- Tenacity
- No matter how complex and difficult a case we may encounter, we never give up till the end and persevere to resolve the problem.
- Agility
- We always perform our duties with agility and speed, and respond with promptness.
- Integrity
- We always keep an attitude with integrity, candor and grace towards all stakeholders: all people concerned with our services including, not only our clients, but people at the JPO, courts, other patent firms, translation agents, and colleagues, and strive to foster beautiful relationships.
We perform our duties while embracing the 5 mottos at all times, as well as the notion of “PAT.* AI”derived from picking up the first letters in the 5 mottos, that is,“Love for Patent” (since “AI” means “Love” (愛) in Japanese).
* Please note that “PAT” mentioned herein means “patent” in a broad sense, namely intellectual property right as a whole including trademark right, design right and the like.
