Dear Clients and Colleagues:
Please be informed that our offices (Osaka & Tokyo) and Japan Patent Office (JPO) will be closed from December 29, 2016 to January 3, 2017 for New Year Holidays.
If you have any deadlines for filing responses or other urgent matters which may fall due within this period, we would appreciate you to ensure sending your communications in good time and well before December 28, 2016 at noon Japan time.
Please note that JPO deadlines that fall due within this period will be automatically extended until the next business day (January 4, 2017).
We wish you a wonderful holiday season, and all the best for the New Year!
Yours faithfully,
AOYAMA & PARTNERS
Mutsumi Samejima
Chief Executive Officer