The firm has a particularly active practice representing a wide variety of international clients, including automotive manufacturers, motorcycle manufacturers, heavy equipment manufacturers, chemical companies, electronic materials manufacturers, bicycle component manufacturers, electronics companies, scientific instrument manufacturers, and computer gaming companies. The firm has several Japanese speaking staff, including Mark Alleman, who lived and worked in Japan for several years as a registered Foreign Lawyer (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi), and travels to Japan frequently, and Shu Muramoto, who speaks native level Japanese, and advanced German and Spanish, and Atsushi Yoshida, who has attained patent attorney qualifications in both the U.S. and Japan. The firm also has native Japanese speakers among its paralegal staff, to better assist its Japanese clientele.

Alleman Hall & Tuttle LLP has an active global portfolio development practice, assisting U.S. clients to extend the protections of their U.S. patents and trademarks overseas. The firm has particularly close ties to Europe and Asia, and works in tandem with law firms in Asia and Europe to handle international patent and trademark prosecution, cross-border licensing, foreign patent non-infringement and invalidity studies, foreign patent invalidity proceedings, and trademark oppositions and cancellations. The firm has Japanese speaking staff, including Mark Alleman, who lived and worked in Japan for several years as a registered Foreign Lawyer (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi), and travels to Japan frequently, Atsushi Yoshida who has native Japanese ability and has attained registration to practice as a patent attorney in Japan and the U.S., and Shu Muramoto, who speaks native level Japanese, and advanced German and Chinese.

The firm accepts a select number of trainees from our international clients, to work alongside our staff while studying the U.S. intellectual property system. Although various arrangements may be made, typically trainees visit in groups of 1-3 at a time, and train for an intensive 2-3 week period. For information on becoming a trainee at our firm, please contact Mark Alleman.