Dear Clients and Colleagues:
Please be informed that our offices (Osaka & Tokyo) and Japan Patent Office (JPO) will be closed from
April 27, 2019 to May 6, 2019 for the ten consecutive national holidays.
If you have any deadlines for filing responses or other urgent matters which may fall due within this period,
we would appreciate it if you could send us your instructions/requests in good time and well before
April 26, 2019 at noon Japan time.
Please note that JPO deadlines that fall due within this period will be automatically extended until the next
business day (May 7, 2019).
We thank you for your cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
AOYAMA & PARTNERS
Hiroshi TAMURA
Norihito YAMAO
Co-chief Executive Officer