History


	■Jun, 1994	Founded in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan with capital of 20 million yen.
	■Apr, 1996	Moved to Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
	■Mar, 1998	Managing Director Mr. Maida starts training at EPO.
	■Apr, 2000	Registered to JPO web-site. Opened web-site of WISEL.
	■Nov, 2000	Expanded the Patent Information Analysis and Technical Trend Analysis department.
	■Apr, 2002	・Joined Japan Intellectual Property Association. ・Begin publishing Japanese version of "EPIDOS News" issued by EPO to web-site of WISEL.
	■Nov, 2002	Displayed our search & translation service at IPO 30th annual meeting held at Los Angeles.
	■Oct, 2003	・Displayed our search & translation service at Patent Information Fair. ・Joined AIPLA held in Washington D.C.
	■Nov, 2003	Visited China Patent Office and patent and law offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
	■Jun, 2004	Selected as "official prior-art search company for medium and small companies" by Japan Patent Office.
	■Mar, 2005	Joined in AIPPI(International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property).
	■Apr, 2005	・Set up Osaka Office ・Visited Korea Patent Office and patent offices in Seoul. .
	■Apr, 2006	Set up Nagoya Office.
	■Sep, 2006	Made a presentation on the technical trend analysis "Gold Nanoparticle Catalyst" commissioned by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Patent Business Market.
	■Oct, 2006	・The patent information search biomass bottle was broadcast on the TV program Circulation of Intellectual Property by TV Asahi etc. ・Made a presentation on the "TextMining of Patent Information - Application of Freeware Termmi in INFOPRO.
	■Jan, 2007	The president of Nagoya Office gave a lecture on "patent information search" for the faculties in an intellectual property department of Nagoya University.
	■Jun, 2007	The vice president of Osaka Office joined the "Patent Search Competition" as an examiner. The competition was held as 50th anniversary event of the Association for Kansai Patent Information Center.
	■Dec, 2007	Published a translation of the book "Integrated Intellectual Asset Management" written by Steve Manton in cooperation with Dr.Yoshitoshi Tanaka, Associate Professor of Graduate School of Innovation Management,Tokyo Institue of Technology.
	■Jan, 2008	Joined International Trademark Association(INTA).
	■Apr, 2008	・Our search staff participated in training at EPO. He is the seventh person to join the training from our company. ・Nagoya Office was also authorized as the official prior-art search office for medium and small companies by JPO. ・Attended the 130th annual meeting of INTA.
	■Sep, 2008	Attended AIPPI 41st Congress held in Boston.
	■Nov, 2009	Organized “Intellectual Property Seminar for Small and Medium Enterprises and Business Ventures” by Mr. Yoichiro Sata, Chief and Professor of Intellectual Property Management and Education Center, Yamaguchi University in Tokyo and Osaka in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the foundation of Wisel Corporation (in Tokyo and Osaka).
	■May, 2010	Mr. Koji Amasaki (technical fields: chemistry and biotechnology), Patent Agent and Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultant, joined as a counsel. Mr. Amasaki was qualified as a patent agent in 2003 during his continuance with Wisel.
	■Dec, 2010	・Increased capital to 58 million yen. ・Mr. Tomoaki Azuma (technical fields: electronics, information and communications, software), Patent Agent, joined as a counsel. Mr. Azuma was qualified as a patent agent in 2006 during his continuance with Wisel.
	■Nov, 2011	・Three examiners visited Wisel from the EPO. Wisel's search staff received a detailed explanation about CPC, etc. ・Ms. Naoko Okuizumi, Wisel's employee, was qualified as a patent agent (resigned in August, 2012).
	■May, 2013	Moved Nagoya Office to Nishiki, Naka-ku, Nagoya.
	■Mar, 2014	Ms. Rika Wakui, Wisel's employee, received the highest award (as the top of six Gold searchers) in the category “Individuals” (participants: 201 individuals) of the Patent Search Competition sponsored by IPCC and held Oct. 2013.
	■May, 2015	Mr. Takami Aoyama joined as a counsel. Mr. Aoyama was a General Manager of the Intellectual Property Department of Toyota Motor Corporation.
	■Jun, 2015	Mr. Takami Aoyama, counsel, received a national award for his contribution to the promotion of inventions at the 2015 National Commendation for Invention.
	■Dec, 2015	Mr. Koji Amasaki, counsel, received the highest award in the category of “Individuals” at the 2015 Patent Search Competition sponsored by IPCC.
	■Apr, 2016	Entrusted, via the Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation, with a 2016 project commissioned by the Japan Patent Office on the analysis and use of patent information for supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, etc.
	■Jun, 2016	Introduced a web conference system.
	■Sep, 2016	Sep, 2016 Attended AIPPI World Congress held in Milano.
	■Mar, 2017	Received the Japan Patent Information Organization’s Director Award for its contribution and distinguished services to the dissemination of patent information for many years.
	■Feb, 2018	Nagoya office was integrated into Osaka office.
	■Oct, 2018	Ms. Rika Wakui, chief of Bio/Pharmaceutical/Chemical Division of WISEL, served as a lecturer at the special planning seminar “Learn from active Patent Searchers! Patent infringement investigation seminar using Japio-GPG / FX”.
	■Dec, 2018	WISEL’s Team (Ms. Arita, Nakanishi and Wakui) was awarded second place (Category of Team Competition) in Patent Search Grand Prix 2018 organized by IPCC.
	■Dec, 2018	Ms. Rika Wakui was awarded a Gold certification (Category of Individual Competition) in Patent Search Grand Prix 2018 organized by IPCC.

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