Junichi Omori Mr. Omori
is a partner with the career of fifteen years in the field
of intellectual property. After graduating from the faculty
of technology of Keio University, he was involved in research
and development projects in a manufacturing company for
three years, then was engaged mainly in patent prosecution
for thirteen years in Suyama Patent Office (currently, Sakura
International Patent Office) and for two years as a partner
in Fujimura & Omori International Patent Office. Mr.
Omori, registered as a patent attorney since 1993, studied
under the direction of Professor Donald Chisum of Washington
University, one of the most authoritative university in
the patent study in the United States. With that experience,
he has handled a lot of important foreign applications for
general manufacturing companies and successfully guided
most of the applications to allowance. Mr. Omori is best
at such technical fields as machinery in general, semiconductor
manufacturing technologies and communication equipment.
Mr. Omori is working with our Tokyo office.
Taro Yaguchi Mr. Yaguchi
is a partner with more than 15 years experience. After graduating from the faculty of technology of
Tokyo University of Science, he was engaged in domestic
and foreign patent applications and dispute resolutions
in the firm of Suzuye & Suzuye. Mr. Yaguchi, registered
as patent attorney in Japan since 1993, studied in a patent law
firm in the United States and attended conferences held
by international organizations such as the International
Trademark Association (INTA) and Association for the
Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI). He has served as
a Japanese law expert witness in the
American
Arbitration Association for a case involving a large
Japanese corporation. Mr. Yaguchi was
also selected as a Japanese delegation member for the
Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Patent Law
Treaty, held at the World Intellectual Property Office in Geneva
in the year 2000. Furthermore, he was
vice chairman of the Patent Committee
of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) and advisor
to the Patent Committee of the Software Information Center
(SOFTIC), the government-related foundation promoting the
improvement of infrastructure for information technology.
Mr. Yaguchi specializes
in the fields of mechanics-electronics,
semiconductor manufacturing technology, telecommunication
technology, food technology and computer software.
He has been involved in the cases related
to financial patents and business method patents since the dawn of the protection
for these patents and has been actively advising financial
institutions such as banks, stock companies and insurance
companies. He is author of three full-length books published
in Japan, one of which, "The Latest U.S. Business Model
Patents 564," was chosen as one of the business bestsellers
by Amazon.com in Japan. Mr. Yaguchi is working with our Tokyo office and
Philadelphia office (c/o Omori & Yaguchi USA LLC). He is
also granted limited recognition under 37CFR § 10.9(b) to
practice as patent agent before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
Yasuaki Yamaguchi
Mr. Yamaguchi, after graduating
from the faculty of law of Nihon University, was engaged
in prosecution of applications such as patent, trademark,
and designs, both domestic and foreign, at Akiyama International
Patent Office. Registered as a patent attorney since 1990,
he was a lecturer at the faculty of law of Nihon University,
before he started working with the intellectual property
department of TOTO Ltd., where he stayed for eight years.
While working with the company, he handled a wide range
of issues, for example, patent and design applications,
both domestic and foreign, dispute resolutions, revising
in company regulations regarding commendation of in-house
inventors, and employee education on patents in general.
With this experience as an in-house patent attorney, he
is knowledgeable in how to motivate researchers, discovering
unnoticed inventions, and making a search on the patentability.
Mr. Yamaguchi also has an extensive knowledge on laws relating
to Intellectual Properties, namely, Unfair Competition Law
and Copyright Law. Mr. Yamaguchi is working with our
Tokyo office.
Akira Orii
Mr. Orii is a registered patent
attorney in Japan since 2000. Mr. Orii is working in
our Tokyo office.
U.S. Attorney / Agent / Technical Advisor
Konomi Takeshita Ms. Takeshita
graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering and completed her law degree at Georgetown
University, where she served as Articles Editor for the
"Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics." Thereafter, Ms. Takeshita was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1993 and
became registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office in 1994. In addition to her
experience as a patent attorney, which has emphasized mainly
the mechanical and electrical arts, she has several years of
diverse business management experience. She was a
product manager for the Intellectual Property Department at
Lexis-Nexis in Dayton, Ohio and was also the Special
Projects Engineer at Shiseido America in New Jersey.
Her past accomplishments also include working as the
Director of Engineering and Market Development for Inteque
Resources Corporation in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Akiko Kobayashi,
Ph.D.
Dr. Kobayashi was registered
as a patent agent in the US in 1999. She obtained a B.S.
from Kyoto University, an M.S. from Tokyo Institute of Technology,
and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, all in Physics.
After three years of postdoctoral research at the University
of Maryland, she joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
(formerly AT&T) Power Systems in Mesquite, Texas. At
Lucent, her responsibilities involved quality and reliability
engineering for power electronic assemblies; component engineering
including testing, analysis, and FMA of power semiconductor
devices. She gained considerable experience in dealing with
manufacturing issues through direct customer interactions
in a dynamic corporate environment. She also worked as a
member of the Deming task force that successfully enabled
then-AT&T Power Systems to become the first American
manufacturer to win the prestigious Deming Prize (awarded
by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers). She
has over 30 publications in solid state physics. Dr.
Kobayashi is working with our Philadelphia office (c/o
Omori & Yaguchi USA LLC).
Noriko Mori
Ms. Mori specializes in the
area of organic chemistry. she
earned a master's degree in chemistry from
Sophia University, one of the most well-known universities
in Japan for its excellent education. Before she
joined Omori & Yaguchi, Ms. Mori was Patent Engineer for the
Intellectual Property department at NEC Corporation. With
her in-depth knowledge of chemistry as well as her extensive
experience in the field of intellectual property, she has
prepared Japanese translation for chemistry-related patent
specifications in English for various cases. Ms. Mori
is currently with our Philadelphia office.
Kaoru
Watanabe
Ms. Watanabe earned dual
master's degrees in Applied Biological Science and in
Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo University of Science in
Japan. She is currently with our Philadelphia office,
and prepares Japanese translations for patent specifications
in English
related to biological science.
Of Counsel
Sachiyo
Hayashi
Attorney at Law in Japan Ms. Hayashi has extensive experience in all phases of
general litigation in Japan. Some of her areas of expertise
include bankruptcy issues, intellectual property issues as
well as medical doctors against malpractice lawsuits. Ms.
Hayashi received her bachelor’s degree in law from Chuo
University. While studying at the Graduate School of Law at
Kobe University, she passed the Japanese bar. Since 1995
when registered as an attorney, she practiced the law with a
law office in Osaka, Japan. Ms. Hayashi
has been a frequent lecturer at legal, educational seminars
sponsored by various corporations. She has also co-authored
two Q&A books, one of which is about how to protect yourself
against door-to-door sales people, mail-order sales and
multi-level marketing systems. The other book talks about
how to protect yourself in monetary transactions.
