Profile of Mark-i
Mark-i® Inc. was founded in 1990 and since then, our company has been handling intellectual property matters in both Japan and abroad. We provide professional services concerning the Intellectual Property rights and practice of management solutions to meet the management needs of Japanese companies. We are uniquely positioned to represent our clients - over 1,500 major leading companies in Japan - in establishing, maintaining, protecting, and making profitable use of their intellectual property rights even in the web site on either a global or limited basis. We have established the global network of agents worldwide, more than 160 countries. Mark-i is superior in management solutions in business area standing the corporate side.
Our services cover all the fields of Intellectual Property. These services include planning of a strategy for the intellectual property rights, communication and support services concerning the intellectual property rights for business to meet our client's actual needs. We provide worldwide services for our clients to execute and to achieve their strategies for the intellectual property rights internationally. We shall meet any demands of our clients with the keywords, "communication", "information-oriented" and "service."
We're named Mark-i® because we shall protect our clients' trademarks for our lives.
We shall make every effort to provide satisfactory services as we protect our clients' important properties, i.e. intellectual property rights, all over the world.
Company Profile
- Name:
- Mark-i Inc.
- Address:
- 6F Business VIP Shibuya Dogenzaka Sakamoto Bldg. 2-16-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0043, Japan [ Map ]
- Founded:
- October,1990
- Established:
- August,1994
- Capital:
- ¥110,000,000
- CEO:
- Yoshiaki KAWAI
- Employees:
- 47
- Client:
- 1,557 (most of them are major leading companies in Japan)
- Board of Directors:
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- Yoshiaki KAWAI
- President
- Tetsuya OBA
- Director
- Masashi OKA
- Director
- Osamu TOGURI
- Advisory Director
- Yutaka YONEMOTO
- Auditor
Company History
- October, 1990
- Founded as the representative of MARKGRAAF, one of the biggest worldwide patent and law offices in Holland.
- August, 1994
- Incorporated as Mark-i Inc., became independent from MARKGRAAF (Capital: ¥30,000,000, Head office: Kojimachi, Tokyo)
- April, 1996
- Joined INTA(International Trademark Association).
- April, 1997
- Development TradeMark Online Database Service and began trademark management system on line.
- November, 1998
- Joined ECTA (European Community Trademark Association).
- November, 2000
- Joined JPNIC (Japan Network Information Center) as a member.
- December, 2000
- Increased company capital amounts to¥129,000,000.
- January, 2001
- Started our professional domain registration management services the domain name registrar.
- April, 2001
- Became a sponsor member of JPNIC.
Started enlightening domain name website "domainname.co.jp". - January, 2004
- Developed our search section to Trademark Search department.
- March, 2004
- The number of IP portfolio under TradeMark Online Database Service exceeds 100,000
- August, 2005
- Started our trademark infringement service
- September, 2005
- Increased company capital amounts to$yen;435,200,000.
- April, 2007
- Started our branding service.