Ayafune International Patents & Trademarks was established in February 2002.  The history of our firm is not long, but each of attorneys of the firm has a long career on business.  Mr. Itsuo Shibata, Partner of the firm, has a career as an engineer of computer hardware design in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for about 13 years.  Ms. Fujiko Shibata has a career as a researcher of pharmaceutical agents in Nippon Roche Research Center for about 13 years.  Dr. Hirohisa Kambara has a career as a researcher of opto-electronics in NTT Corporation for more than 20 years.

Therefore, Ayafune International Patents & Trademarks offers wide range of legal services for obtaining, maintaining, and enforcing intellectual property rights in Japan and foreign countries.  Also, we have established a patent professional corporation in January 2016 to provide sustainable services for our clients.  

Our patent prosecution practice covers electrical technology including electronics, computer science, and electrical communications; optics including quantum optics, fiber optics, and opto-electronics; and chemical science including pharmaceuticals, immunological science, polymer science, biochemical science, environmental science, microbiology; and biotechnology.  We also provide prior art searching service for patent applications, and prior trademark searching for trademark applications. 

Knowledge for art related to inventions and intellectual property laws are essential are “two wheels of one cart,” our business.  This is our policy.  In order to provide good services for our clients, we make continuous efforts to improve our skills through learning the arts, the laws, and so forth. 

              Ayafune means a ship which brings dream, hope and fortune from Niraikanai, where is the world of God over the sea appearing in the legend of Ryukyu Islands.

              We named our firm "Ayafune" hoping that we become the ship which bring a dream, hope and fortune to our clients when we founded the office.