HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK has a total of 250 excellent staff members, who enable the firm to provide prompt and high-quality intellectual property services to meet the needs of clients. Including lawyers, the staff members are: specialized staff members covering patents, utility models, designs, and trademarks; specialized staff members covering copyrights, unfair competition, semiconductor integrated circuit layout, motion for import suspension, and registration of plant varieties; and specialized staff members for supporting clients in enforcement of intellectual property rights through analysis, appeal, litigation, licensing and license negotiations, and the like. The staff also comprise draftspersons, translators and secretaries, who are highly experienced in intellectual property practices and other matters involving science and technology.

Along with the rapid advancement of technical innovation in diversified fields, intellectual property rights are increasingly being enforced in a broader range. This trend will become more apparent in the 2000's, which are expected to usher in a pro-patent era. To stay abreast of rapid advancements, ”HARAKENZO more” has been making every effort to achieve a more profound understanding of laws and to absorb new technologies, by searching, analyzing and taking any possible action to protect its clients' intellectual property rights intact. By flexibly accommodating itself to drastic changes, including a series of law amendments and international harmonization projects, ”HARAKENZO more” promptly provides its clients at home and abroad with advice right to the point in each individual case.

”HARAKENZO more” has long-established contacts with fellow intellectual property professionals (lawyers, fellow counsel, laboratories, and universities) throughout the world. As a result of our many years of experience and contacts with them, our firm is able to serve our clients effectively with both technical and legal capabilities. More specifically, our firm is associated with many distinguished law firms throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, and through their agency we are able to provide a fully international service to our clients, and to advise clients on a worldwide basis.

With the cooperation of these local firms, we have worked on the acquisition of high quality intellectual property rights and the utilization of these rights with sophisticated global strategies, not just for the leading countries but also for medium-developed nations and even advancing countries. Our experienced experts will propose intellectual property strategies from the clients’ point of view, responding to the needs of all clients.

”HARAKENZO more” established ”Nagoya Office” on March 2018, and now has respective hubs in four major cities positioned on the ”main artery” of Japan, in the form of ”Tokyo Head Office”, ”Nagoya Office”, ”Osaka Head Office”, and ”Hiroshima Office”. Thus we now realize our long-held ambition ”Pacific-Belt IP Strategy Scheme” in our daily services.

In 2021, ”HARAKENZO more” has marked its 45th anniversary of the foundation.
In April 2021, the Tokyo Head Office was expanded and relocated to new "World Trade Center Building SouthTower", located adjacent to JR Hamamatsucho Station, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

”HARAKENZO more” aims to achieve further growth and expansion by 2026, the 50th anniversary of our firm, and to continually provide unique, leading-edge ”Legal Services for IP Strategy” of the highest quality.

And here we promise the continuous efforts with the aim for the further development of our clients and us.

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