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Nishimura & Asahi Receives Highest Rankings in World Trademark Review 1000 - 2024 Edition
Rie Funabashi specializes in intellectual property law with a focus on non-contentious and contentious trademark and unfair competition related matters, including dealing with the import of goods infringing intellectual property rights at customs. She is admitted and qualified to practice as a patent & trademark attorney in Japan (2004).
Rie Funabashi is a certified patent and trademark attorney in the Tokyo office. Rie has extensive experience in assisting Japanese and international clients in non-contentious and contentious trademark and unfair competition related matters, including conducting trademark clearance searches, filing trademark applications, responding to office actions, appeals, and oppositions, as well as cancellation trials and recordation procedures (such as for name changes, registered trademark transfers, and licenses). She also regularly provides advice in relation to brand/trademark protection, trademark-related negotiations, trademark disputes, and anti-counterfeiting in Japan and overseas, while also frequently dealing with infringing goods at customs. Rie supports her clients, taking into account their potential needs, utilizing the expertise she has acquired from handling trademark-related matters in Japan and overseas since 2004.