SMITH PATENT OFFICE

Customized Services for Your Unique Needs!

Areas of Practice:
 
      1. Patent prosecution
      2. Trademark prosecution
      3. Japanese and English Patent publication and technical literature searching
      4. Invalidity and Noninfringement Opinions
      5. Licensing consultation
      6. Copyright prosecution and registration
      7. Counterfeit goods procedures
      8. Internet and domain name cases

Please note that we can accommodate services in both
Japanese and English languages to better suit the needs of our clients.
Our services offered relating to patent protection and prosecution include:  
 
      • Arranging for patentability, state-of-the-art, and infringement and validity searches to be made; 
      • Preparing and prosecuting patent applications; 
      • Advising on defending against unwarranted claims of patent infringement;
      • Rendering legal opinions analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of patents; 
      • Prosecuting interference contests to determine priority in invention;
      • Filing and opposing reissue and reexamination applications;
      • Negotiating license agreements;
      • Giving value-enhancing advice for the management of patent portfolios including intellectual property audits. 
    We maintain a diverse practice designed to identify
    and strategically establish intellectual property rights,
    to license those rights and, whenever necessary,
    advise on enforcing or defending them.