1. Mission Statement

What is our office’s objective?  What should we do as representatives?  How should we manage our office?  How can we develop our clients’ businesses through IP services?  How can we make our colleagues happy and prosperous?

Our office’s mission is “To endeavor to develop clients’ businesses and to contribute to society through IP services.”  IP is a tool for the development of business of enterprises. IP offices’ work should accordingly be done for clients’ business development.  We endeavor to promote IP matters and to solve IP problems together with clients and with their overseas IP attorneys.

 

2. High-Quality IP Services

To carry out our mission, we provide high-quality IP services which fulfill the following five elements: (i) elaborate analysis (ii) strategic suggestion (iii) speed (iv) reasonable price and (v) outstanding management.  One more important element is “heart", which is the drive to work with clients to enhance business development.  We will make every effort to carry out our mission with "heart".

 

3. Our Office’s Scale and Continuity

Instead of a “one man office,” we have established a “team office” consisting of capable people working together to establish a continuous business scale.  We have the following seven (7) people: (i) Kozo Takeuchi, a Japanese patent attorney with 33 years of experience and is the APAA Secretary General, (ii) a trainee named Hirokazu Matsumoto with 22 years of trademark and design experience and is an examinee for a Japanese patent attorney, (iii) a paralegal with 21 years of trademark experience, (iv) a secretary with 13 years of trademark experience, (v) a secretary with 3 years of trademark experience,(vi) a secretary with 1 year of trademark experience, (vii) an American Secretariat named Ms. Mari Jan Motsenbocker who is also the APAA Secretariat.