(i)representing persons in procedures with the Director-General of Custom-Houses that involve the accreditation procedures prescribed in Article 69-3, paragraph (1) and Article 69-12, paragraph (1) of the Customs Act (Act No. 61 of 1954); in procedures with the Director-General of Custom-Houses or the Minister of Finance that involve a petition under Article 69-4, paragraph (1) and Article 69-13, paragraph (1) of that Act; and in procedures involving such a petition that the person filing that petition or a person seeking to export or import the goods to which that petition pertains undertakes with the Director-General of Custom-Houses or the Minister of Finance;

(ii)representing persons in alternative dispute resolution proceedings (meaning alternative dispute resolution proceedings referred to in Article 1 of the Act on Promotion of Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (Act No. 151 of 2004); hereinafter the same applies in this item) in cases involving patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, circuit layouts, or specific unfair competition, or cases involving a right connected with a work (meaning a work as provided in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Copyright Act (Act No. 48 of 1970); the same applies hereinafter), when these proceedings are conducted by an organization designated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry as one that is found to be capable of conducting alternative dispute resolution proceedings in such cases in a fair and proper manner; and

(iii)consulting about the operations set forth in the preceding two items.

(iv)consulting about the content of an opinion (limited to content that concerns the application of the Patent Act (Act No. 121 of 1959) and the Utility Model Act (Act No. 123 of 1959)) from a person who seeks to submit a written opinion prescribed in Article 105-2-11, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Patent Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 65, paragraph (6) of that Act and Article 30 of the Utility Model Act).

(i)acting as an agent or broker in a person's entry into a contract for the sale of a right connected with a patent, utility model, design, trademark, circuit layout, or work or of a technical secret or technical data; a contract involving the granting of a non-exclusive license for any of these; or any other such contract; or acting as a consultant with regard to any of these;

(ii)preparing materials and doing other work in connection with procedures that involve a right connected with a patent, utility model, design, trademark, new variety of plant, or geographical indication (meaning an indication that identifies a good as originating in a specific place, region, or country where a given quality, reputation, or other characteristic of the good is mainly attributable to its geographical origin; the same applies in the following item) with a foreign administrative authority or equivalent organization (limited to procedures undertaken by a party that has a domicile or residence (or business office, in the case of a corporation) in Japan);

(iii)consulting on the protection of an invention, device, design, or trademark (unless procedures that involve a right connected with any of these are already pending at the Japan Patent Office), circuit layout (unless the application for registering the creation of the right to use the circuit layout has already been submitted to the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry), new variety of plant, technical information useful for business activities (except for technical secrets and technical data), or geographical indication; and

(iv)participating in preparing a draft of a Japanese Industrial Standard or other such standard that contributes to providing more opportunities for the use of rights connected with patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, or circuit layouts, or of technical secrets or technical data, or acting as a consultant with regard the preparation of a draft of such a standard.

(i)a person who has passed the patent attorney examination;

(ii)a person who is qualified to be an attorney at law; or

(iii)a person who has been engaged for a total of at least seven years in functions involved in trials, appeals, or examinations as an administrative judge or examiner at the Japan Patent Office.

(i)a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment without work or a heavier punishment;

(ii)a person not otherwise falling under the preceding item who has committed one of the offenses prescribed in Articles 78 through 81 or 81-3 of this Act, Articles 196 through 198 or 200 of the Patent Act, Articles 56 through 58 or 60 of the Utility Model Act, Articles 69 through 71 or 73 of the Design Act, Articles 78 through 80 of the Trademark Act or Article 28 of the supplementary provisions of that Act, and has been sentenced to pay a fine, if it has not been five years since the date on when the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution;

(iii)a person not otherwise falling under either of the preceding two items who has committed one of the offenses prescribed in Article 108-4, paragraph (2) of the Customs Act (limited to the part pertaining to Article 69-2, paragraph (1), items (iii) and (iv) of that Act; hereinafter the same applies in this item), paragraph (3) (limited to the part pertaining to Article 108-4, paragraph (2) of that Act) or paragraph (5) (limited to the part pertaining to Article 69-2, paragraph (1), items (iii) and (iv) of that Act), Article 109, paragraph (2) (limited to the part pertaining to Article 69-11, paragraph (1), items (ix) and (x) of that Act; hereinafter the same applies in this item), paragraph (3) (limited to the part pertaining to Article 109, paragraph (2) of that Act) or paragraph (5) (limited to the part pertaining to Article 69-11, paragraph (1), items (ix) and (x) of that Act), or Article 112, paragraph (1) of the Customs Act (limited to the part pertaining to Article 108-4, paragraph (2) and Article 109, paragraph (2) of that Act), the offenses as prescribed in Articles 119 through 122 of the Copyright Act, the offenses prescribed in Article 51, paragraph (1) or Article 52 of the Act Concerning the Circuit Layouts of a Semiconductor Integrated Circuit, the offenses as prescribed in Article 21, paragraph (1), Article 21, paragraph (2), items (i) through (v) or item (vii) (except for the part pertaining to Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act) or Article 21, paragraph (3) or (4) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, the offenses prescribed in Article 67 through 69 or Article 71 of the Plant Variety Protection and Seed Act (Act No. 83 of 1998) or the offenses prescribed in Article 39 or Article 40 of the Act on Protection of Names of Specific Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuffs (Act No. 84 of 2014), and has been sentenced to pay a fine, if it has not been three years since the date on which the person completed the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution;

(iv)a government employee who has been subject to a disposition of disciplinary dismissal, if it has not been three years since the date of the disposition;

(v)a person who has been subject to a disposition rescinding a registration pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (1), if it has not been three years since the date of the disposition;

(vi)a person who has been subject to a disposition prohibiting engagement in business pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, if it has not been three years since the date of the disposition;

(vii)a person who has been subject to a disposition excluding that person from membership in a bar association, deleting that person's registration as a certified public accountant, or prohibiting that person's engagement in business as a tax accountant, due to a disciplinary action pursuant to the provisions of the Attorney Act (Act No. 205 of 1949) or the Act on Special Measures concerning the Handling of Legal Services by Foreign Lawyers (Act No. 66 of 1986), the Certified Public Accountancy Act (Act No. 103 of 1948) or the Tax Accountant Act (Act No. 237 of 1951), if it has not been three years since the date of the disposition;

(viii)a person who has been subject to a disposition suspending that person's engagement in business pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, and who has had their registration deleted during the term of suspension of business, if this term has not yet passed;

(ix)a minor; or

(x)a person who has become subject to an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings and whose rights have not been restored.

(i)laws and regulations relating to patents, utility models, designs, and trademarks (hereinafter referred to as "industrial property rights" in this Article and items (iv) and (v) of the following Article);

(ii)treaties on industrial property rights; and

(iii)the necessary laws and regulations for a person to practice as a patent attorney that Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry prescribes, beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items.

(i)laws and regulations relating to industrial property rights; and

(ii)a subject that the examinee selects in advance from among the subjects related to technology or law that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

(i)a person who has passed the short answer component of the examination:the short answer component of an examination that is conducted by the last day in the two-year period beginning on the date on which passing examinees are announced for the short answer component of the examination that the person has passed.

(ii)a person who has gotten a score on the essay component of the examination in a subject as set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article that a council or other such body (meaning an organization provided for in Article 8 of National Government Organization Act (Act No. 120 of 1948)) specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as a "council") finds to be sufficient:the essay component of an examination in that subject that is conducted by the last day in the two-year period beginning on the date on which passing examinees are announced for the essay component of the examination on which the person has gotten that score.

(iii)a person who has gotten a score on the essay component of the examination in a subject as set forth in paragraph (2), item (ii) of the preceding Article that the council finds to be sufficient:the essay component of an examination in that subject that is conducted thereafter.

(iv)a person who has completed a program at a graduate school under the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) and has obtained the number of credits in subjects relating to industrial property rights that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry:the short answer component of an examination in the subjects set forth in paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii) of the preceding Article that is conducted by last day in the two-year period beginning on the date of completion of the program.

(v)a person who has been engaged for a total of at least five years in functions involved in trials, appeals, or examinations at the Japan Patent Office:the part of the examination conducted on laws, regulations, and treaties relating to industrial property rights.

(vi)a person who is specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as having at least the same level of knowledge as a person who has passed the written examination in an examinee-selected subject as referred to in paragraph (2), item (ii) of the preceding Article:the essay component of the examination conducted on that subject.

(i)it is to be conducted one or more times per year;

(ii)it is to be conducted regarding the laws, regulations, and practices involved in practice as a patent attorney; and

(iii)it is to have teachers and instructors who are patent attorneys and who have a total of at least seven years of practical experience.

(i)the plan for implementing practical training operations, in terms of employees, equipment, method of implementing practical training operations, and other particulars, is appropriate to ensure the proper and reliable implementation of practical training operations;

(ii)the applicant is a corporation with the necessary financial and technical foundations for the proper and reliable implementation of the plan for implementing practical training operations referred to in the preceding item;

(iii)if the applicant is engaged in any business other than practical training, there is no risk that its engagement in that business would cause practical training operations to be unfair; and

(iv)designating the applicant would not impair the proper and reliable implementation of practical training operations.

(i)the applicant has had a designation rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 16-12, paragraph (1) or (2), and it has not been two years since the date of the rescission; or

(ii)one of the applicant's officers is a person that has been subject to sentencing for having committed one of the offenses prescribed in this Act, and it has not been two years since the date on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution.

(i)it is found to no longer be in compliance with any of the items (i) through (iii) of Article 16-3, paragraph (4);

(ii)it has violated one of the provisions of Articles 16-4, paragraph (2), 16-6, paragraph (1), 16-7, 16-8, or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article;

(iii)it has conducted practical training operations other than based on the rules of training operations approved pursuant to Article 16-6, paragraph (1);

(iv)it has violated an order under Article 16-6, paragraph (3) or Article 16-9; or

(v)it came to be designated by deception or other wrongful means.

(i)if it is likely that the person would be unfit to practice as a patent attorney due to a mental or physical disorder.

(ii)if the person is likely to damage the reputation of the patent attorney profession.

(i)if the patent attorney has stopped practicing;

(ii)if the patent attorney has died;

(iii)if the patent attorney has come to fall under one of the items of Article 8 (except for item (v));

(iv)if the patent attorney has been subject to a disposition rescinding the registration thereof under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article; or

(v)if the patent attorney has been subject to a disposition of disbarment under Article 61.

(i)a case about which the adverse party has consulted the patent attorney, and that the patent attorney has helped the adverse party with or agreed to take for the adverse party;

(ii)a case about which the adverse party has consulted the patent attorney to an extent and in a manner that is found to be based on a fiduciary relationship;

(iii)a different case that the adverse party to a case that the patent attorney has already accepted asks the patent attorney to take;

(iv)a case that the patent attorney has handled as a government employee in the course of duty;

(v)a case that the patent attorney has handled as an arbitrator in an arbitration proceeding;

(vi)a case about which, during the time that the patent attorney was engaged in the practice of a patent attorney corporation as a patent attorney who was its member or employee, the adverse party consulted the patent attorney corporation; that the patent attorney corporation helped the adverse party with or agreed to take for the adverse party; and that the patent attorney personally became involved in; or

(vii)a case about which, during the time that the patent attorney was engaged in the practice of a patent attorney corporation as a patent attorney who was its member or employee, the adverse party consulted the patent attorney corporation to an extent and in a manner that is found to be based on a fiduciary relationship, and that the patent attorney personally became involved in.

(i)admonition;

(ii)suspension of the whole or part of the patent attorney's practice for not more than two years; or

(iii)prohibition of practice.

(i)a person that has been issued a disposition suspending their practice pursuant to the provisions of Article 32 and that period of suspension has not yet passed; or

(ii)a person that, within 30 days prior to the date of the disposition in question, was the member of a patent attorney corporation that has been ordered to dissolve or suspend its business pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, if it has not been three years since the date of the disposition (or the period of suspension of business, in case of an order to suspend business).

(i)purpose;

(ii)name;

(iii)locality of the office;

(iv)names and addresses of members;

(v)particulars related to contribution by the members; and

(vi)particulars related to acting in an executive capacity regarding business

(i)a case about which the adverse party has consulted the patent attorney corporation, and that the patent attorney corporation has helped the adverse party with or agreed to take for the adverse party;

(ii)a case about which the adverse party has consulted the patent attorney corporation to an extent and in a manner that is found to be based on a fiduciary relationship;

(iii)a different case that the adverse party to a case that the patent attorney corporation has already accepted asks the patent attorney to take; or

(iv)a case in which half or more of the members of the patent attorney corporation must not be involved because it is a case as set forth in the items of paragraph (3).

(i)a case about which, before the member or employee joined that patent attorney corporation, the adverse party consulted the member or employee, and that the member or employee helped the adverse party with or agreed to take for the adverse party;

(ii)a case about which, before the member or employee joined that patent attorney corporation, the adverse party consulted the member or employee to an extent and in a manner that is found to be based on a fiduciary relationship;

(iii)a case that the member or employee has handled as a government employee in the course of duty;

(iv)a case that the member or employee has handled as an arbitrator in an arbitration proceeding;

(v)a case about which, during the time that the member or employee was engaged in the practice of another patent attorney corporation as its member or employee before becoming a member or employee of the relevant patent attorney corporation, the adverse party consulted the other patent attorney corporation; that the other patent attorney corporation helped the adverse party with or agreed to take for the adverse party; and that the member or employee personally became involved in; or

(vi)a case about which, during the time that the member or employee was engaged in the practice of another patent attorney corporation as its member or employee before becoming a member or employee of the relevant patent attorney corporation, the adverse party consulted the other patent attorney corporation, to an extent and in a manner that is found to be based on a fiduciary relationship, and that the member or employee personally became involved in.

(i)deletion of the person's registration as a patent attorney;

(ii)a reason provided for in the articles of incorporation:

(iii)the consent of all members; or

(iv)expulsion.

(i)a reason provided for in the articles of incorporation;

(ii)the consent of all members;

(iii)a merger with another patent attorney corporation;

(iv)an order commencing bankruptcy procedures;

(v)judicial decision ordering its dissolution; or

(vi)an order of dissolution under the provisions of Article 54.

(vii)an insufficient number of members.

(i)the fact that the patent attorney corporation will merge;

(ii)the names and principal office localities of any patent attorney corporation disappearing in the merger, and of the patent attorney corporation that will survive the merger or be incorporated in the merger; and

(iii)the fact that creditors may raise objections within a fixed period of time.

(i)the name and locality of its offices;

(ii)provisions relating to admission to and withdrawal from the Association;

(iii)provisions relating to the types of members, and their rights and duties;

(iv)provisions relating to officers;

(v)provisions relating to meetings;

(vi)provisions relating to branches;

(vii)provisions relating to the registration of patent attorneys;

(viii)provisions relating to the registration screening board;

(ix)provisions relating to maintaining the integrity of members;

(x)provisions relating to the training of members;

(xi)provisions relating to practical training;

(xii)provisions relating to the mediation of disputes related to members' business;

(xiii)provisions relating to the provision of information concerning the Patent Attorneys Association and its members;

(xiv)provisions relating to membership fees;

(xv)provisions relating to accounting and assets;

(xvi)provisions relating to the secretariat; and

(xvii)other provisions that are necessary in order for it to achieve the purpose of the Patent Attorneys Association.

(i)a person violating the provisions of Article 31-3 (including if applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 50);

(ii)a person violating a disposition of suspension of business under the provisions of Article 32 or 54, paragraph (1); or

(iii)a person violating the provisions of Article 75.

(i)a person that has not made a report or submitted materials under the provisions of Article 71, paragraph (1); that has made a false report or submitted false materials; or that has refused, obstructed, or evaded an on-site inspection under the provisions of that paragraph; or

(ii)a person violating the provisions of Article 76.

(i)if a designated training agency has failed to keep the books or make a statement in the books, has made a false statement in the books, or has failed to preserve the books, in violation of Article 16-8;

(ii)if a designated training agency has failed to make a report or submit materials under the provisions of Article 16-10, paragraph (1); has made a false report or submitted a false material; or has refused, obstructed, or evaded an on-site inspection under the provisions of that paragraph; or

(iii)if a designated training agency has discontinued all of its practical training operations without obtaining the permission referred to in Article 16-11, paragraph (1).

(i)a person failing to make a report or making a false report in violation of the provisions of Article 946, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 53-2, paragraph (6); or

(ii)a person refusing a request as set forth in one of the items of Article 951, paragraph (2) or in one of the items of Article 955, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 53-2, paragraph (6), without legitimate grounds.

(i)if the person has failed to register in violation of the provisions of Cabinet Order under this Act;

(ii)if the person has merged in violation of Article 53-2, paragraph (2) or (5);

(iii)if the person has failed to request an investigation as referred to in Article 941 of the Companies Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 53-2, paragraph (6) in violation of the provisions of Article 941 of that Act;

(iv)if the person has failed to make a statement or record, or has made a false statement or record of what is to be stated or recorded in the accounting books referred to in the articles of incorporation or Article 615, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (1), or in the balance sheet referred to in Article 617, paragraph (1) or (2) of that Act, as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 55, paragraph (1);

(v)if the person has failed to file a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings in violation of the provisions of Article 656, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (2);

(vi)if the person has distributed assets in violation of the provisions of Article 664 of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (2); or

(vii)if the person has disposed of assets in violation of the provisions of Article 670, paragraph (2) or (5) of the Companies Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (2).