Sonoda & Kobayashi Intellectual Property Law Firm excels in advising on patent-related applications and licences. The firm works with well-known companies in areas of electronic, semiconductor and pharmaceutical patents as managing partner Yoshitaka Sonoda and leading patent attorney Yoshinori Kobayashi possess highly technical backgrounds in nuclear engineering and biochemistry. In addition, four patent engineers joined the firm this year specialising in information processing, molecular biology and physics, bolstering the wealth of experience already present at Sonoda & Kobayashi. Due to the team's intrinsic blend of Japanese patent law know-how and scientific understanding, clients such as Peugeot Citroen, Genentech, Novo Nordisk, L'Oréal and Renault are often pleased by the firm's ability to read in-between the lines of time-sensitive patent applications and as a bridge for multinational companies to the JPO.