For small day-to-day IP concerns and consultations, we offer an IP spot consultation service.

• Face-to-face: 6,600 yen /30 min, 13,200 yen/60 min (tax included)
• Mail-based: 3,300 yen/question (tax included)

*As a general rule, face-to-face consultations will be conducted online. In the case of Google Meet, we will set up the meeting for you. We will try to accommodate online meetings using other tools (Zoom, Teams, etc.) as much as possible if you contact us.

*After an email-based consultation, we can arrange a face-to-face meeting.

*If we accept your case as a result of the IP spot consultation, the consultation fee will be deducted from the cost.

For example, if you have any of the following inquiries or concerns, please feel free to use it.

• I would like to have a consultation that goes a little further than the free consultation
• I usually do IP work myself, but I want to check with an expert if that is the right way to do it.
• Someone else took action, such as sending a warning letter, but I don’t know how to take the initial action.
• I would like to hear a second opinion about the answers of other patent law firms.
• I would like to hear the opinions of experts as to whether it is really okay to conclude an IP-related contract with this content.
• I would like to talk about my career in the IP industry

If you would like to discuss something more in-depth than the free consultation you have already received, please provide us with a brief summary of your existing consultation in advance so that we can provide you with the most accurate advice possible, even within the limited time available.

We are also open to consultation with those who would like to do the procedures themselves up to a certain point and would like to receive advice on a spot basis. (We have written a collection of tips for such people. Japanese text only, paid articles).

Tips for those who want to obtain intellectual property rights in Japan

If you would like ongoing advice, we offer a separate IP advisory service. Please click here for details.

*If it is clear that your consultation is complex and will take time to analyze, we may charge an additional fee. In such cases, we will disclose a written estimate in advance and proceed with the consultation upon your agreement.

• 1. please contact us from the inquiry form below and let us know the method, date, and time of the IP spot consultation you would like. (It would be appreciated if you could send us a summary of the content of the consultation to the extent possible to help us identify any conflicts of interest.
• *If we are unable to accept your consultation due to a conflict, we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know.

After the details of your consultation and date are determined, we will send you an e-mail according to the payment method you selected in the inquiry form. If you have not yet selected a payment method, please contact us, taking into account the following cancellation deadline *We use Stripe for credit card payment.

(If it takes longer, we will contact you in advance.) We will also send you a summary of our response to your consultation after the IP spot consultation.