Events

Sonoda & Kobayashi IP Group will attend IPBC Asia 2023. For more event details, please visit the website.

Sonoda & Kobayashi IP Group will attend SUPER IP EXPO 2023 online. For more event details, please visit the website. (English application form available)

Sonoda & Kobayashi IP Group will attend SUPER IP EXPO 2022 online. For more event details, please visit the website. (English application form available)

Sonoda & Kobayashi will hold its next webinar on July 20^th, 2022 in collaboration　with EURAXESS Japan and The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation. Jeroen van der Donck is giving the lecture and will cover tips for getting a patent in Japan.The webinar is scheduled to start on July 20^th, 2022, at 18:30 (JST). We would like to invite anyone who is interested in this topic to attend the webinar. Please register by following the link here.

Patent litigation can be complex, let alone patent litigation in a country whose laws have been updated significantly, and which sees more and more law suits every year. This webinar is aimed to introduce attendees to patent litigation in China, and Ms. Yanhui Wang, partner at Sonoda & Kobayashi IP Group (Beijing) provides advice and tips on how succeed in court.

The webinar will take place on Zoom at April 6th 2020, 22:00 Japanese time/15:00 CET/09:00 EST

Sonoda & Kobayashi is pleased to announce our next joint webinar between our firm and World IP Review on the latest patent trends in Japan. The webinar is scheduled on July 7^th ,2021, at 2:00PM BST. Please register by following the link here. This webinar will be available for viewing on demand.

During EU Industry Week, Sonoda & Kobayashi will hold its next webinar on March 1^st ,2021 in collaboration with the EU-Japan Technology Transfer Helpdesk. Nicole Bigler is giving the lecture and will cover the Japan experience for the Green Deal. The Webinar is scheduled on March 1^st,2021, at 9:30 AM-11:30AM (CST).

We would like to invite anyone who is interested in this topic to attend the webinar. Please register by following the link here.

Sonoda & Kobayashi will hold its next webinar on July 8^th, 2020 in collaboration with the EU-Japan Technology Transfer Helpdesk. Rie Takahashi, patent attorney, is giving the lecture and will cover best practices and advice for protecting digital related inventions under the Japanese law as well as one actual case example of one successfully protected invention in Japan.

The Webinar is scheduled on July 8th, 2020, at 10:00 AM-12:00PM (CEST).

We would like to invite anyone who is interested in this topic to attend the webinar. Please register by following the link here.

Sonoda & Kobayashi is pleased to announce our next joint webinar between our firm, IAM Media and Lexology about AI Invention Patentability across the United States, Europe, Japan and China.

The Webinar is scheduled on June 23rd, 2020, at 14:00 PM CET.

We would like to invite anyone who is interested in this topic to attend the webinar. Please register by following the link here.

We look forward to your presence online on Tuesday, 23rd June 2020.

We will attend the 10^th China Intellectual Property Annual Conference (CIPAC), from September 2^nd to September 3^rd in Hangzhou, China.

We are pleased to announce that we will have a booth and that Dr. Yoshitaka Sonoda will give a speech titled “Differences between JPO, CNIPA and EPO in Substantive Examination at Opposition/Appeal Stages”.

For more event details, please visit the website.

If you would like to arrange a meeting during the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at IAD@patents.jp.

Sonoda & Kobayashi is pleased to announce our next joint webinar between our firm and the European firm Murgitroyd about Patents: Patentability of Software Invention and AI-Overview of Legal Systems and Recent Trends in Germany, Japan and other European jurisdictions.

The Webinar is scheduled on June 28th, 2019, at 10:00 AM CET.

We would like to invite anyone who is interested in this topic to attend the webinar. Please register by Thursday, 27th June, 2019 by following the link here.

We look forward to your presence online on Friday, 28th June 2019.

Sonoda & Kobayashi is pleased to announce our next joint webinar between our firm and the European firm Murgitroyd, about patents: employee inventions – overview of legal systems and recent trends.

The webinar is scheduled on December 17^th, 2018 at 10:00 AM CET.

We would like to invite anyone interested in this topic to attend the webinar. Please register by Sunday, 16^th December 2018 by following the link here.

We look forward to your presence online on Monday, 17^th December 2018.

Nicole BIGLER, Kazuyuki SEMBA and Akira FUJII will participate to an IPR Conference in Seoul organized by the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea. This Conference will cover the current IP challenges aroused by the Industry 4.0 and new technologies. Kazuyuki SEMBA will give a presentation by addressing the topic of “IP Related Issues of Cloud Technology in Japan”. Akira FUJII is also expected to take part in a Q&A session.

In collaboration with the EU-Japan Technology Transfer Helpdesk, Sonoda&Kobayashi IP Law launches its new IPR Support Program which offers the opportunity to young inventors, entrepreneurs and start-ups to protect their inventions by receiving free legal advice and assistance during a 30 minutes consultation.