ONO & COMPANY

(A) Documents required:

• (1) Specification and claims
• (2) Abstract
• (3) Drawings
• (4) Power of Attorney
• (5) Priority Document:
• -A priority document is needed where priority is claimed (applicable for all except European and Korean applicants).

(B) Information required for filing an application:

• (1) The full name, address and nationality of the applicant and, if already allocated, the code number of the applicant before the Japanese Patent Office.
• (2) The full name and address of each inventor.
• (3) Where the applicant is a body corporate, the full name of the executor of a Power of Attorney as a representative of the body corporate and his or her title in the body corporate.
• (4) Where Convention priority is to be claimed, the name of the country, filing date and, if already known, filing number of each application on which the priority is to be claimed.
• (5) Where an English-language patent application is filed, a Japanese translation thereof must be filed within 2 months of the filing date of the patent application.

English-language applications are limited to patent applications and do not apply to utility model applications.