about
Company
Company Profile
- Name
- IP PRO K.K.
- Established
- February 2008
- Capital
- JPY 10,000,000
- Representative
- Fumihiko Ogasawara, President & CEO
- Employees
- 19 (as of July 1, 2026)
- Certification
- ISO 17100 Translation Service Provider (TSP), Patent/IP (Japanese–English / English–Japanese)
- Address
- Head Office: Daido Life Esaka Bldg. 13F, 1-23-101 Esaka-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-0063, Japan
Tel: +81-6-6339-3320 / Fax: +81-6-6339-2022
Organization
IP PRO K.K. organizational chart
History
- July 2026
- Website renewed
- January 2026
- Moved fully to a unit-based structure to strengthen organizational agility
- January 2024
- Strengthened our digital operations framework
- February 2023
- 15th anniversary of founding
- August 2022
- Website renewed
- July 2022
- Corporate identity renewed; brand wordmark styled as “ip-pro” and logo updated
- February 2022
- Head office renovated; free-address (hot-desking) introduced
- February 2020
- Full introduction of the remote-work system
- January 2020
- Obtained ISO 17100 as a Translation Service Provider (TSP)
- October 2018
- Remote-work system built and partially introduced (in response to the Northern Osaka earthquake and Typhoon No. 21)
- September 2018
- Head office renovated
- February 2018
- 10th anniversary of founding
- March 2017
- New refreshment-leave system introduced
- October 2015
- Concluded a contract with an overseas client; launched the Global IP Solutions service
- July 2014
- Expanded the languages handled in patent translation (German, etc.)
- September 2013
- Began publishing the newsletter “Community Pau”
- November 2012
- Information Security Committee renewed
- January 2012
- Head office relocated
- August 2010
- Tokyo office opened (closed in 2012)
- April 2010
- Began direct USPTO filing services (now discontinued)
- October 2009
- Information Security Committee established; Information Security Policy enacted
- June 2008
- Patent search services launched
- March 2008
- Expanded the languages and directions handled in patent translation
- February 2008
- IP PRO K.K. founded
- January 2008
- Head office opened
- September 2007
- Preparations for founding