| Practice Areas |
| Patent, Trademark and Other Intellectual Property Infringement Litigation (Domestic/Overseas), Licensing and Other Intellectual Property-Related Agreements, Infringement/Validity Search on Intellectual Properties, Revocation Suits Against Decisions of the Japan Patent Office, and General Corporate matters. |
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| Practice |
Yoshikazu Iwase joined Anderson Mori & Tomotsune after working with an intellectual property firm in Tokyo for three years. His litigation experience involves a number of patent infringement trials and revocation suits against the trial decisions of the Japanese Patent Office concerning patentability/validity of patents over various technologies including computer software for designing new drugs, coils, prism sheets for backlight of personal computers, DVD structure, a laser utilized for color printers, sensors for blood sugar levels, catalysts, pharmaceutical products, and medical devices. He has also been involved with a wide range of trademark/trade dress and copyright infringement suits, licensing and IP assets transfer transactions, and dispute resolution. Mr. Iwase has provided a wide range of advice regarding U.S. patent infringement issues in Japan. His experience also includes drafting and negotiating licensing, patent and various intellectual property transfer agreements, transactions and due diligence of intellectual property in the course of M&A deals.
In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mr. Iwase worked with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner at their offices in Reston, Virginia (2003-2004).
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Intellectual Property Law |
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Corporate Transactions |
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| Publications/Lectures |
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"The Situation in Each Country Concerning Monetary Damages in Patent and Trademark Infringement Cases" Participated as Speaker in AIPPI Japan-Korea-China Trilateral Meeting 2008 in Fukuoka, July 2008 |
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"Passing judgment on Japan's IP court," Managing IP, No. 3, March 2008
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"Recent US Patent Law Practice In Obtaining Opinions From US Patent Attorneys," The Lawyers, December 2007
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"Recent Developments in Trademark Cases," for the Joint Meeting co-organized by AIPLA and Japan Trademark Association, April 2007 |
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"IP High Court Decisions: New citation of common knowledge or well-known art before the IP High Court without mention in office actions," for the Joint Meeting co-organized by AIPLA and AIPPI JAPAN, April 2007 |
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"License Agreement and Confidentiality Agreement," lectured at the Intellectual Property Seminar for Medium, Small Size and Venture Enterprises, March 2007 |
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"Protection of Intellectual Property," lectured at the Intellectual Property Seminar for Medium, Small Size and Venture Enterprises, January 2007 |
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"Intellectual Property Rights in M&A Transactions," The asialaw Japan Review, Volume 2 Issue 2, co-author, October 2006 (Japanese and English) |
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"Recent Cases Re: Post-Sales Trademark Infringement" for AIPLA pre-meeting, October 2006 |
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"Intellectual Property Rights in M&A Transactions," lectured at the seminars held by Management Training Center (May and December 2006) |
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"The First Year of the IP High Court - Can the IP High Court Be the Federal Circuit?," for AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute Pre-Meeting, February 2006 |
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"Useful Points for Intellectual Property Management in Business Enterprises Management," lectured at the Intellectual Property Seminar for Medium, Small Size and Venture Enterprises, February 2006 |
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"Getting the Deal Through - Patents 2006," Law Business Research, January 2006 (co-author) |
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"Japanese companies' reactions to employees' inventions" (Journal of Management Lawyers Council, No. 147, co-author, December 2005) |
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"Corporate Management and Intellectual Property Practices," lectured at the Intellectual Property Seminar for Medium, Small Size and Venture Enterprises, November 2005 |
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"En Banc Decision by CAFC regarding Interpretation of Claim - Phillips v. AWH Case," Intellectual Property Management, November 2005" |
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"Rethinking Your Licensing Practices: Japan IP and Competition Law," lectured at In-House Congress Tokyo 2005, September 2005 |
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"Whether Japanese Patent Law allows injunctive relief against inducement of patent infringement -A decision of the Tokyo High Court, February 24, 2005-," AIPPI, July 2005 |
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"Employee Inventions and Companies’ Reactions," Tokyo Employer’s Association, May 2005 |
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"The Recent Trends in Claim Construction of the Federal Circuit - Introduction of Wagner Article and Phillips v. AWH Case," Intellectual Property Management, December 2004 |
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"Update on the New Income Tax Convention Between the U.S. and Japan," for AIPLA pre-meeting, October 2004 |
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"Use of Survey Evidence in Japanese Trademark Litigation," for AIPLA pre-meeting, October 2004 |
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"What US Practitioners Should Know About Recent Developments in Japanese Trade Secret Law" IP Litigator, May 2004 (co-author) |
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"The Japanese Supreme Court denied the right of publicity to names of racehorses," Entertainment Law Reporter, March 2004 |
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"New Defensive Tools for Japanese Patent Litigation" for AIPLA pre-meeting, January 2004 |
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"US Law School Report-University of California at Berkeley," Niben Frontier, June through September 2003 |
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"Commentary on the Judgment of Tokyo High Court April 27, 2000," Recent Trends of Patent Litigation, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, December 2002 |
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"Latest Court Decisions concerning Domestic Patent Exhaustion," for the 80th Meeting of The Intellectual Property Research Group, July 2001 Chapter 6 (License Agreement) of “The Newest Manual for Drafting Contracts” Shinnippon-hoki Publishing Co., Ltd., January 2002 |
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"Intellectual Property Encyclopedia," Sanseido Co., Ltd, May 2001 (co-author) |
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| Education |
| The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1995); The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, 1995-1997; graduate study, The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (LL.M., 2003). Associated with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Reston, 2003-2004. |
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Japan (1997) |
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New York (2004) |
| Professional and Academic Associations |
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Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association |
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The Japan Patent Attorneys Association (2000-2002) |
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International Trademark Association (2004-present) |
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Japan Trademark Association (2004-present) |
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AIPPI JAPAN (2005-present) |
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LES JAPAN (2005-present) |
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Japanese (first language) |
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English |
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