NGB offers the following services:
Validity, Novelty & Infringement Clearance Search
Patents as well as utility models in Japan are obviously potential sources of good prior art references in view of the accumulated volumes and active R & D in some fields. Based on your information, we will advise you of suitable search resources, strategy and if necessary options for searches tailored to your objectives.
Subject Matter Search
Our search report provides its clients with complete lists of patents in a specific field, from which you will learn the state of the art and patent coverage of competitors in Japan. Depending on your request, we can include a technical analysis with detailed commentaries in our search report with references to available market and business information.
Non-Patent Literature Search
Non-Patent Literature Search is often difficult to consider due to lack of prior knowledge of information resources. We have a complete list of worldwide scientific literature databases and resources at our disposal in which exhaustive search can be conducted.
Technology Analysis based on Patent Information
Our patent maps and commentaries based on our strategic research and analysis of IP information will enable you to understand the past and current trends of R & D and patent activities in your industrial segment or by your competitors, and will guide you in the future.
Asia IP Information
We have a wide network of IP professionals in Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam who gather IP information and conduct patent searches. We can coordinate a multiple country patent search for these countries.
If you request such a search, you can access all of these Asian countries’ patent information in one stop, capable of a strictly tailored selection being made from this enormous amount of data for a generated report.
Other Services and Products available
＊ Obtaining a copy of file wrapper & patent copies
＊ Status Search and/or Tracking/Watching
＊ Licensing and Patent Auction
＊ Notification of New Chemical Substances
＊ CD-ROM products containing Japanese/international patent information
＊ Publishing IP News Report (I.P.R., LQ, Asia Report)