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 using the inquiry form below to let us know how you would like to have an IP spot consultation. (For the purpose of checking conflicts of interest, it would be helpful if you could send us a summary of the content of your consultation to the extent possible.
• If you would like to schedule a face-to-face consultation, please see 2. below and also contact us with your preferred consultation date and time.
• *If we are unable to accept your consultation due to a conflict, we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know.

2. If you wish to have a face-to-face consultation, please specify a date and time other than “scheduled” in the calendar below (click on “scheduled” to see each scheduled time slot). Weekdays: 10:00-18:00, Saturdays: 10:00-13:00

3. After the details of your consultation and date are determined, we will send you an email 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 conducting the IP spot consultation.