Reeko IMAMURA
Reeko IMAMURA
Patent Attorney/Infringement Litigation Agent/Executive Master
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