{"id":1910,"date":"2026-04-02T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/?page_id=1910"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:16:58","slug":"practiceareas5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/en\/practices\/practiceareas5","title":{"rendered":"IP \/ Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition \/ Startups & Venture Capital \/ IT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n AI-EI Law Firm is a boutique firm comprising lawyers with diverse backgrounds, including experience as in-house counsel in the legal and intellectual property departments of major corporations, as well as in startup back-office operations, overseas assignments, and interpretation.<\/p>\n

Our firm provides legal support essential to core business operations, such as constructing IP strategies based on technology and business models, IP clearance, responding to trade secret protection and leakage incidents, addressing unfair competition by competitors, and supporting joint research and licensing agreements. In addition, we provide practical advice on labor and employment matters.<\/p>\n

We are also capable of handling contract negotiations, drafting agreements, advising overseas investors, and managing cross-border matters in English. Furthermore, in the event of a dispute, we offer end-to-end support to achieve efficient and practical dispute resolution, ranging from representation in negotiations to litigation and preliminary injunctions.<\/p>\n

Services we provide in this area include the following:\n <\/p>\n

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    IP<\/p>\n

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    • IP infringement matters \/ Internet-based rights infringements<\/li>\n
    • Domain name disputes<\/li>\n
    • Patent infringement and invalidity legal opinions \/ IP due diligence<\/li>\n
    • Anti-counterfeiting \/ Filing for customs import seizure<\/li>\n
    • Drafting and reviewing joint R&D and licensing contracts<\/li>\n
    • Legal advisory on IP strategy and portfolio development<\/li>\n
    • Trademark applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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      Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition<\/p>\n

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      • Advisory on corporate trade secret protection systems; drafting and reviewing internal policies and written pledges<\/li>\n
      • Handling trade secret infringement matters (unauthorized use by competitors, leakage by employees), through demand letters, litigation representation, and petitions for preservation of evidence<\/li>\n
      • Addressing defamation, confusion-causing acts, misleading comparative advertising, and other forms of unfair competition, through demand letters and legal representation in court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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        Startups & Venture Capital<\/p>\n

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        • Drafting and review of investment agreements<\/li>\n
        • Drafting and review of shareholders’ agreements and founder agreements<\/li>\n
        • Shareholder disputes<\/li>\n
        • Corporate governance (shareholders meeting \/ board meetings) and preparation of internal standardized forms<\/li>\n
        • Commercial registration procedures<\/li>\n
        • Labor and employment matters (drafting of various contracts and agreements), employee disputes, and executive \/ employee misconduct investigations<\/li>\n
        • Drafting and reviewing terms of service and privacy policies<\/li>\n
        • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various types of agreements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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          IT<\/p>\n

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          • Drafting and review of contracts concerning system development<\/li>\n
          • Disputes concerning system development<\/li>\n
          • Disputes concerning system updates and changes of vendors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-EI Law Firm is a boutique firm comprising lawyers with diverse backgrounds, including experience as in-house counsel in the legal and intellectual property departments of major corporations, as well as in startup back-office operations, overseas assignments, and interpretation. Our firm provides legal support essential to core business operations, such as constructing IP strategies based on […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":127,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/?page_id=1908","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1910","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1910\/revisions\/1911"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aieilaw.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}