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We carry out searches in Japanese databases on behalf of our customers:
Legal status searches
The Japanese PATOLIS database is the most comprehensive source of detailed legal status information on Japanese industrial property rights (patents, utility models, trade marks and designs). It is the quickest and cheapest way to obtain the latest full legal status information.
The EPO’s Japanese Patent Information Department in Vienna uses the PATOLIS database to provide you with the most up-to-date legal status information on Japanese patent and utility model documents.
The search results are partially translated into English and supplemented by a detailed explanation from us giving you a comprehensive overview of the legal status situation during and after the grant procedure, or during legal proceedings.
We can also supply additional information such as citations (partially provided), domestic priorities, divisionals, and the names of the parties to the various proceedings.
Usually, your queries for legal status information will be answered within one or two working days, in urgent cases, within a few hours. The results of our legal status searches can be sent to you by letter, fax or e-mail depending on the urgency. Preliminary information can be supplied via telephone.
The price per query and document is currently EUR 25.00.
Ordering
Click here to submit your order for a legal status report of a Japanese industrial property right.
For bulk orders, or orders for legal status searches without specialist annotations, please contact us for information on our special conditions.
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SDIs and watch service
We use the Japanese database PATOLIS, one of the most up-to-date source of information on Japanese industrial property rights, to carry out SDIs and patent monitoring searches on behalf of our customers. PATOLIS offers a quick and cheap way of keeping yourself informed about the latest patent activities in Japan.
Profiles for monitoring searches are prepared jointly with the clients. A cost estimate and a test run of a newly developed profile will be supplied free-of-charge.
We can monitor changes in the legal status of Japanese documents. With every legal status watch run, you receive a print-out of the legal status of the documents that are being watched. Any new information is highlighted and explained.
The costs for this legal status watch service is EUR 19.00 per document per watch run. If more than ten documents are being monitored simultaneously, the price is EUR 16.00 per document per watch.
SDIs, monitoring searches and legal status watches take place on a two-weekly, four-weekly, quarterly or half-yearly basis, in rhythm with the updates to the PATOLIS database and depending on your needs.
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Subject-matter searches
The Japanese PATOLIS database offers access to a wealth of data on Japanese industrial property rights including utility models and trade marks. The EPO’s Japanese Patent Information Department in Vienna uses PATOLIS to carry out subject-matter searches in Japanese for customers.
Search profiles are prepared jointly with the client. Results and output formats can be discussed in detail and copies of interesting documents can be supplied. We also provide translation of the search result when required.
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Please contact us for further details and a free-of-charge test run of your profile:
European Patent Office
Vienna sub-office
Rennweg 12
1030 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: +43 1 52126 4545
Fax: +43 1 52126 4197
e-mail: asiainfo@epo.org