Our Osaka-based Firm is an international intellectual property law firm with a growing global patent practice. Osaka is the heart of the Kansai economy, worth US$740 billion (FY2001), which would make it the eighth largest in the world if it were viewed as a separate country. Our clients include research universities, blue-chip Japanese, U.S., and European biotechnology, healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceuticals corporations. They are leading & innovative Japanese, U.S., and European healthcare & biotechnology corporations specializing in agribiotechnology, biotechnology, chemistry, enzymology, genomics, immunology, oncology, poylmers and pharmaceuticals.