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Akimitsu Hirai
Attorney at Law & Patent Attorney, Managing Partner
Adjunct Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
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Intellectual Property, Corporation, International Transaction, Litigation,
Technology Transfer matters, Unfair Competition matters, Copyrights
Especially, Biotechnology and IT Technology related matters
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Mr. Hirai was admitted as an attorney in 1990 and admitted as
a Japanese patent attorney in 1995. Mr. Hirai's practice currently
involves intellectual property matters, contact and litigation,
including patent and trademark prosecution. Mr. Hirai possesses
broad experience in negotiating and drafting international license
agreements for various types of intellectual property, with
a special focus on cutting-edge technology such as biotechnology
and software.
Mr. Hirai has an LL.M degree from the University of Washington,
School of Law. He spent 2 years at the University of Washington,
including 9 months of research study at CASRIP as a research
fellow. He concentrated on biotechnology, with a special focus
on the comparative study of biotechnology protection in the
United States and Japan and has written several articles on
the issue of protection of biotechnology. Mr. Hirai also spent
several months at an IP firm in Seattle and was involved in
a U.S. IP practice.
After Mr. Hirai came back to Japan, he joined a major international law
firm where he was involved international licensing matters and patent and
trademark infringement cases. Mr. Hirai was also a legal counselor for
the Office of Technology Transfer of the University of Tokyo.
He has held successive posts on a governmental committee concerning industry-academia-government collaboration. He lectures about technology transfer and Intellectual Property Law at universities and TLOs.
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Of
Counsel
Dr. Toshiko Takenaka
Professor, University of Washington, School of
Law,
Attorney at Law, admitted in New York
Dr. Takenaka is a Professor of University of Washington,
School of Law. Dr. Takenaka is also co-founder of CASRIP (Center
for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property),
University of Washington, School of Law. Dr. Takenaka has
written widely on comparative patent issues, with a special
focus on comparative law aspects of patentability and the
protection scope of U.S. patents, comparing Japanese and European
patent laws. Dr. Takenaka was admitted as a Japanese patent
attorney in 1986 and is admitted to practice in New York.
She had extensive experience in both corporate and private
practice before joining the faculty of the University of Washington
School of Law.
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Affiliate Patent Firms
Shimizu Patent
Office
President: Hatsushi Shimizu, Ph.D
Partner: Kazunori Hashimoto
Kantetsu Tsukuba-Science-City Bldg. 6th Floor 1-1-1, Oroshi-machi
Tsuchiura-shi, Ibaraki 300-0847, Japan
Tel: 81-298-41-2001, Fax: 81-298-41-2009, 2012
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