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 Duration of Patent Rights,” Eiji Katayama 70th Birthday Commemorative Collection A New Process for Business Laws – Recent Trends in Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy Law, Seirin Shoin (2020)
“Written Description 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
“Extending the Length of a Patent” – Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association of Tokyo (Feb 2021)
2020 JPO/IPR Online Course (Training Course on Trial and Appeal System) “The Patent Invalidation Trial System (case studies)” JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center (Jan. 2021)
2020 JPO/IPR Course (Operational Patent Examination Training (OPET) Course) “Practices of Appeals in Trial for Patent Invalidation” JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center (Dec. 2020)
2020 JPO/IPR Course (Training Course on Trial and Appeal System) “The Patent Invalidation Trial System” JIPII Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center (Feb. 2020)
Adjunct Professor at the Waseda University Graduate School of Law (2013-2014)