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Reeko IMAMURA

Reeko IMAMURA

Patent Attorney/Infringement Litigation Agent/Executive Master

Reeko IMAMURA

Background / Career

1984
Graduated, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo
1985
Joined the Japan Patent Office
2002-2005
Judicial Research Official, Tokyo High Court
2005
Judicial Research Official, Intellectual Property High Court
2005-2008
Director of Pharmaceutical Compound Division, Japan Patent Office
2008-2010
Director of Biotechnology Division, Japan Patent Office
2010-2011
Director of the Examination Standards Office, Japan Patent Office
2012-2013
Chief Administrative Judge (Medical Science), Japan Patent Office
2013-2015
Director of the Board of Trial and Appeal (Biotechnology), Japan Patent Office
2015-2017
Director-General of Patent Examination Department (Chemistry, Life Science, and Material Science) , Japan Patent Office
2017-2019
Director-General of Trial and Appeal Department, Japan Patent Office
Jul 2019
Left Japan Patent Office, registered as patent attorney
Aug 2019
Joined SOEI Patent & Law Firm
Apr 2021
Registered as specific infringement lawsuit counsel

Papers and Publications

“Extension of Patent Term,” Eiji Katayama 70th Birthday Commemorative Collection A New Process for Business Laws – Recent Trends in Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy Law, Seirin Shoin (2020)

“Description Requirement of Claims and Specifications,” Minoru Takeda 80th Birthday Commemoration, Developing the Country with Intellectual Property Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation (2013)

“Revised Examination Guidelines for Extension of Duration of Patent Rights” AIPPI, Vol.57, No.10 (2012)

“Use Inventions,” “Inventions with Numerical or Parameter Limits,” edited by Takeda Minoru, “Patent Examination/Trial Legal Principles and Current Challenges,” Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (2002)

Lectures and lecturers

2024 "Towards Appropriate Utilization of Divisional Applications - From Basics to Applications" Yamaguchi University

2022-2024 Training Course for Administrative judges "Role of Trial and Appeal", Japan Patent Office

2022 "Extension System of Patent Term", The Japan Pharmaceutical Industry Legal Affairs Association

2021 "Extension of Patent Term" , Tokyo Pharmaceutical Industry Association

2020-2023 JPO/IPR Training Course on Trial and Appeal “Invalidation Trial System (case studies)” , JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center

2023 JPO/IPR Training on Operational Patent Examination (Inventive Step) ”Medicinal Invenion” , JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center

2020-2022 JPO/IPR Training Course on Patent Examination “Practices of Invalidation Trial,” JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center

2020 JPO/IPR Training Course on Trial and Appeal “Invalidation Trial System”, JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center

2013-2014 Adjunct Professor at the Waseda University Graduate School of Law

Other Activities

2023-  Member of the Working Group of the Examination Standards Expert Committee, Subcommittee on Patent System, Intellectual Property Committee, Industrial Structure Council, MITI