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Nakamura & Partners
Manufacturing-IP focusActive litigationProvide the highest level services and develop a very trustworthy relation with our clients
About
Nakamura & Partners is an international patent and law firm providing services across intellectual property inside and outside Japan, from a single office in Marunouchi, Tokyo. The firm states its history began on 1 July 1914, when Morio Nakamatsu — a former Commissioner of the Japan Patent Bureau — opened Nakamatsu Patent & Law Firm; the name changed to Nakamura & Partners under representative partner Minoru Nakamura. It states approximately 180 staff members, including about 60 patent attorneys and about 20 attorneys-at-law, with about 40 partners managing the firm.
Strategic positioning
Japanese gateway for pharmaceutical and biologics patent strategy, prosecution, and enforcement.
Deterministic scores · rules-based, not AI iHow these scores are obtained: each one is computed from this profile's listed attributes — capability checkboxes, certifications, capacity figures and coverage — by a fixed formula, recomputed on every page load. Deterministic and rules-based means the score comes from a fixed, transparent formula over listed attributes — the same inputs always produce the same score. It is not AI: there is no model, no learning, and no hidden weighting. Whether a score is relevant to you depends on your specific project: a capability that raises the number may not matter for your work, and a niche strength your project needs may barely move it. Capability scores are a directional starting point, not a verdict. A lower score does not disqualify a company or consultant, and no decision should rest on the score alone — always contact the company directly to confirm the specifics for your project.
Manufacturing-IP focus iAdds 25 points if the firm declares a manufacturing-IP focus, plus 9 points per manufacturing technology area listed (sterile injectables, biologics, radiopharmaceuticals, biosimilars, drug-device combinations, mRNA/LNP), capped at 45, plus 8 points per manufacturing-IP service (CMC patents, trade secret governance, FTO opinions, patent term extension), capped at 30. Levels: 75+ Manufacturing-IP specialist | 50-74 Manufacturing-active | 25-49 Selective | below 25 Therapeutics-IP focused. Whether this dimension matters for you depends on your specific project.
68Manufacturing-active
Life-sciences IP iAdds 4 points per technology area, capped at 30, plus 5 points per practice area, capped at 25, plus 4 points per jurisdiction, capped at 20, plus up to 25 points for technical depth based on the share of attorneys holding PhDs or advanced degrees. Levels: 80+ Premier life-sciences IP | 60-79 Strong | 40-59 Established | below 40 Emerging. Whether this dimension matters for you depends on your specific project.
65Strong
Technology areas
Small moleculesBiologicsSterile injectablesBiosimilarsDiagnostics
Practice areas
Patent prosecutionPatent litigationFreedom-to-operate (FTO)TrademarkPatent portfolio strategy
Jurisdictions
JPOWIPO / PCTUSPTOEPOCNIPA
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Nakamura & Partners
IP & patent counsel · Japan
Live record · illustrative seed data · scores deterministic, rules-based — not AI.