HISTORY

Wisel History


1990 Jun,1994Founded in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan with capital of 20 million yen.
Apr, 1996Moved to Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Begin Training and Foreign Application Services.
Mar, 1998Managing Director Mr. Maida starts training at EPO.

2000 Apr, 2000Registered to JPO web-site.
Opened web-site of WISEL.
May, 2000Applied for JPO's Technical Trend Analysis Project.
Jun, 2000Begin Sales of Intellectual Property Information CD-ROMs.
Nov, 2000Expanded the Patent Information Analysis and Technical Trend Analysis department.
Increase capital to 23 million yen.
Apr, 2002Joined Japan Intellectual Property Association.
Begin publishing Japanese version of "EPIDOS News" issued by EPO to web-site of WISEL.
Nov, 2002Displayed our search & translation service at IPO 30th annual meeting held at Los Angeles.
Mar, 2003One of our search staff participated training at EPO.
Oct, 2003Displayed our search & translation service at Patent Information Fair.
Joined AIPLA held in Washington D.C.
Nov, 2003Visited China Patent Office and patent and law offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
Mar, 2004Joined EPO Seminar on Search and Documentation Working Methods.
Jun, 2004Selected as "official prior-art search company for medium and small companies" by Japan Patent Office.

2005 Mar, 2005Joined in International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property(AIPPI).
Apr, 2005Set up Osaka Office
Joined EPO Seminar on Search and Documentation Working Methods.
Visited Korea Patent Office and patent offices in Seoul. .
Apr, 2006Set up Nagoya Office.
Sep,2006Made 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,2006The patent information search biomass bottle was broadcast on the TV program Circulation of Intellectual Property by TV Asahi etc.We helped the search in the Support for Small and Medium Enterprises in Intellectual Property Strategy of Chiba Prefecture.
Nov,2006Our search staff passed the examination of the patent attorney. He is the second person to be a patent attorney from our company.
Made a presentation on the "TextMining of Patent Information - Application of Freeware Termmi in INFOPRO.
Jan,2007The president of Nagoya Office gave a lecture on "patent information search" for the faculties in an intellectual property department of Nagoya University.
Jun,2007The 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,2007Increased capital to 30 million yen.
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,2008Joined International Trademark Association(INTA).
Apr,2008Our 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,2008Attended AIPPI 41st Congress held in Boston.


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