Deep Tech - GVA Professional Group

Practice Areas

1. Intellectual Property Strategy

・Licensing intellectual property, Contracts: Reviewing and drafting of joint research and development agreements, joint application agreements, and license agreements

・Intellectual Property Management, Strategy: Application for trademark registration, patent infringement investigation, patent portfolio management (*We may work in collaboration with our partner patent attorney office)

・Employee invention, Development: Establishment of employee invention regulations, Drafting agreements with employees, etc.

2. Support for industry-academia collaboration and university-launched ventures

・Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement: Proof of Concept (PoC) agreement with university, joint research and development agreement, and legal support for the Technology Licensing Organization (TLO)

・Demonstration experiment: Collaborative research agreement and others

3. Various Regulatory Laws

・Healthcare and Life Science: Writing a legal opinion on the classification of medical devices

・Legal research on blockchain technology in Web3 and Fintech fields, Support when dealing with regulatory authorities, including the Japanese Financial Services Agency

・Data: Licensing and regulatory compliance relating to big data, location data, and privacy

・Generative AI: Legal research based on the latest laws and regulations, drafting contracts, terms of use/ terms of service, and privacy policy

・Space development: Research on the Japanese Act on Launching Spacecraft and Launch Vehicle and Control of Spacecraft, the Japanese Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data, or other laws, Application support

4. Startups, Corporate Finance

・Financing support: Legal support for financing through the issuance of common shares, class shares (preferred shares)

・Incentive design: Legal support for issuance of stock options, restricted stock, and others

Features

In Deep Tech field, where companies seek to address social issues and drive global transformation, establishing a strong intellectual property strategy is essential for commercializing innovative technologies and maintain long-term competitiveness as the foundation of their business. Working closely with our patent attorneys, our firm provides comprehensive support to our clients throughout the entire process, from the development to implementation of intellectual property strategy, helping them protect their technologies and achieve their business growth.

Deep Tech encompasses a wide range of business domains and often does not fit within the exiting frameworks. Accordingly, our firm has established a cross-functional support structure comprising attorneys who have developed specialized expertise within their respective specialty teams.

In addition to our expertise in addressing complex legal issues faced by deep tech companies, our attorneys bring their extensive experience in supporting startups and utilize their deep understanding of business and industry dynamics. By leveraging their knowledge, we provide multifaceted support to our clients that extends beyond legal advice.

Achievemen

Case Examples

・Reviewing a joint research and development agreement between university and a university-launched startup engaged in the utilization of microorganisms

・Drafting written opinion on the classification of medical devices for a university-launched startup developing non-invasive devices using optical technique

・Drafting employee invention regulations for a startup utilizing patented AI
・Reviewing data license agreement for a university-launched startup engaged in analysis of location data, including people flow big data
・Support for trademark application for a startup developing XR devices

・Reviewing a joint research agreement and Proof of Concept agreement for a startup engaged in recirculating aquaculture business

・Reviewing a joint patent application agreement for a listed group company

・Reviewing a Proof of Concept (PoC) agreement and a joint research and development agreement for a startup developing space technology
・Drafting non-disclosure agreement and terms of service for a startup analyzing satellite date
・Support for the calculation of incentive for employee inventions and the drafting of an related agreements for a AI startup utilizing location data

・Drafting a system development agreement for a blockchain development startup

・Legal research and handling inquiries from the Japanese Financial Services Agency for a blockchain development startup

・Support for financing transaction for deep tech companies, including the issuance of common shares or preferred shares
・Support for issuance of stock options by deep tech companies

・Drafting terms of use / terms of service for deep tech companies

・Support for patent infringement investigation

Partnership

In Deep Tech field, intellectual property, including patents, is often critical to business. To build a framework capable of addressing issues related to intellectual property, our firm has partnered with a patent lawyer, Shigeki Iimura, who has extensive experience in supporting startups and deep expertise in intellectual property practice.

https://doushi.jp/members/shigeki-iimura 　(available only in Japanese)

He has experience working at a law firm and handling patent litigation. In addition to his extensive experience in patent and trademark practice, he has broad experience across a wide range of intellectual property matters, including patent litigation and intellectual property due diligence.

Our firm provides one-stop services covering not only legal matters but also intellectual property matters.