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Hiroyuki ITO

Education Graduated from Kyoto University with a Faculty of Engineering (1998)
Obtained a Master's degree in Faculty of Engineerging from the Graduate School of Kyoto University (2000)
Obtained LLM from University of Washington School of Law (2009) (Recepitant of Outstanding Student Award)
Qualifications Patent Attoeney (2003),Specific IP Litigation Attorney
Passed a patent bar in the U.S.
Achieved a certificate of “Software Design & Development Engineering” by JITEC
Working languages Japanese/ English/Korean/Chinese/ German
Experience Keyence Coporation R&D Division (2000-2002)
Nogawa Patent Office (2003-2008)
University of Washington School of Law (2008-2009.6)
SK IP LAW FIRM (2009.10-)
Overseas training nternship on patent litigation practice at Dorsey & Whitney LLP (2009.6-9)
Practice Electronics/Software/Chemistry
Other ・"Claim for damages when already-sold infringing products are sold to another party or used" IP Research Institute (Chuo Chiteki Zaisan Kennkyujo) vol. 22 pp. 69-79
・ Opinion on a Supreme Court decision, titled “Is it permissible or not to sell inktank products with refilled ink?”, Companies and Inventions (Kigyou to Hatsumei), no.475(2006)2-8.
・ Opinion on an en bank decision of the IP High Court, titled “Is it permissible or not to sell inktank products with refilled ink?”, Companies and Inventions (Kigyou to Hatsumei), no.475(2006)2-8.
・ Opinion on a Tokyo District Court decision, , titled “Is it permissible or not to sell inktank products with refilled ink?”, Companies and Inventions (Kigyou to Hatsumei), no.461(2005)2-6.
・ Opinion on a decision of the IP High Court, titled “How the term 'identical' in Article 29-2 should be construed in an invention with numerical limitation”, on the Web site of the Kinki Branch of the Japanese Patent Attorneys Association

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