Professional Experience
September 1997 to 2009
Ohtsuka International Patent Office, Tokyo, Japan (head of a group from 2001)
June 2005 to March 2006
US patent practice trainee at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto in New York City, USA
April 1996 to April 1997
Sera and Kanai Patent Firm, Tokyo, Japan
Professional License
Japanese Patent Attorney from October 2004
Professional Activities
Member of Japan Patent Attorneys Association
Registration No. 13443
Member of Commission of Industrial Competitiveness
2008
President of Young Patent Attorneys Conference in Japan
2005
Education
University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1996 AIPLA 2005 Practical Patent Prosecution Training for New Lawyers.
Article
"About the KSR case" in The Lawyers, 20 June 2007, ILS Publications, Inc
"As a Mechanical Engineer in the Intellectual Property Field" in Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, March 2010, Vol. 113 No. 1096
