Online Trademark Services

Try to search on a trademark search screen if your name can be registered as trademark.
You can check if there are pending trademark applications and/or registered trademarks, and sound-alike trademarks (Similar Trademark).
If you create your account, you can check the trademarks detected by search results, and it can be stored as it is.

Creating account for free of charge.
After creating, please enter information for user and company.
It makes communication with our attorneys smooth.

Please apply from my-page. After entering your application information, please confirm a contract content you request, and pay application Fees.
Please contact our customer supports via chat if you have any questions about your apply.

Communication with our attorneys via Cotobox's message function starts.
We check if information on entry form is complete or not.
We report to you if your trademark is suspected of non distinctive. *In Premium Plan, our attorneys consider for registrability of the trademark and all JPO examination items, and prepare application documents. If the registrability of the trademark is low, you can receive our attorney's strategy advice.

We check if the application documents to be filed to the JPO is correct.
If there is no problem with the documents, please instruct our attorneys to file an application.

After communicating with our attorneys via message function, our attorneys prepare the documents and file it to the JPO.
You always can check the progress on Cotobox's dashboard.

JPO Examiners conduct examination of applications for trademark registration.
Examination term is about 11 months since the application date. *By requesting expedited examination, an examination result will come out from about 2 months. For a request for expedited examination, the additional fee is required. Also, there are some predetermined equirements to meet.

As soon as receiving a notification of the examination result from the JPO, we will let you know.
There are 2 kinds of examination results: "Decision on the registration" and "Notice of reasons for refusal".
"Decision on the registration" is a document for accepting the registration of a trademark, and "Notice of reasons for refusal" is a document for refusing the registration of a trademark.
If you receive Notice of reasons for refusal, you can consult our attorneys about future responses (filing an argument and an amendment to the JPO or abandon the registration of the trademark application)

After receiving Decision on the registration, pay the registration fee. You can choose for 5 years or for 10 years.
Our attorneys pay the registration fee to the JPO.

Upon the registration of establishment of the trademark, a trademark right arises.
After it, a Certificate of Trademark Registration will be sent to you in a mail via our attorneys.
Attorney's agency business ends here.

Before the expiration of the time limit for payment of registration fees, we notify you about payment information for next registration fee.
We also notify before the expiration of the time limit for payment of renewal fees.
If you apply in Cotobox, we will pay the registration fees and the renewal fees to the JPO instead of you.