Kazuko MATSUO

Present Status

Legal Section

Present Post

Partner of Nakamura & Partners
Attorney at Law and Patent Attorney

Main Practices

Corporate Legal Affairs, Commercial Transaction, Contracts;　Intellectual Property Law; Litigation, Arbitration, Disputes Resolution; International Transaction Law

Languages

Japanese and English

Education and History

Passed the BAR Examination in 1952;
Graduated from Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo (LL.B.);
Graduated from Research Scholar at The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law;
Graduated from the Legal Training Institute in 1958;
Registered for The Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Daini Tokyo Bar Association in 1958;
Joined Nakamatsu International Patent & Law Office (current Nakamura & Partners) in 1958;
Registered for Japan Patent Attorneys Association in 1961;
Instructor of Law Faculty at Kanagawa University from 1961 to 1963;
Instructor of Law Faculty at St. Paul University from 1963 to 1965;
Research Fellow at University of Michigan from 1964 to 1965;
Studied at Comparative Law Institute of New York University (M.C.J., 1965);
Practiced at Bucknam & Archer LLP in 1965;
Partner of Nakamura & Partners from 1974;
Representative Partner of Nakamura & Partners from 1987 to 1992;
Professor of Master of Intellectual Property of Science and Technology at Graduate School of Management of Tokyo University of Science, from 2005 to 2007

Membership and Activities

Daini Tokyo Bar Association (1958-)
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations (1958-)
  Intellectual Property Committee
    Vice Chairman, Deputy Chairman (1986-1987), Chairman (1991)
  Intellectual Property Center Committee (2009-)
Japan Patent Attorneys Association (1961-)
Japan Association of Industrial Property Law (1974-)
Industrial Structure Council Trademark Institution Subcommittee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (1989-1993)(1998-1999)(2001-)
Japan Design Protection Association (1992-)
Candidate of Arbitrator,Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (1998-)
Japan Association of Arbitrators (2005-)
  Director (2005)
Intellectual Property Lawyers Network (2005-)
  Executive Director (2005-)
Arbitration ADR Law Association (2006-)
Japan Trademark Association (1988-)
  President (2002-2003), Vice-president (2004-2009)
International Literary and Artistic Association
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property of Japan (AIPPI·JAPAN)
The Japanese Group of International League of Competition Law(LIDC)
ITMA Overseas Member

Main Articles

(written in English)
"Recent Amendment to the Unfair Competition Prevention Law for the Protection of Trade Secrets", UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, Spring Vol. 9, Nos. 1&2 by UCLA (1991)

(written in Germany)
"Kapitel 6.Japan"Internationales Handbuch des Marken-und Kennzeiichenrechts/Prof.Dr.Paul LANGE by Velag C.H.Beck(2009)

(written in Japanese)
"Trademark Infringement and Claiming Damages", Japan Association of Industrial Property Law Bulletin No.20 by Japan Association of Industrial Property Law (1996)

"Point of Contact between New Unfair Competition Prevent Law and Design Protection", DESIGN PROJECT No.39 by Japan Design Protection Association (1996)

"Design and Trademark Rights about Designs", Japan Association of Industrial Property Law Bulletin No.22 by Japan Association of Industrial Property Law (1998)

"Reconsider about Trademark Infringement", Intellectual Property Law and Present Society-Memorial of Toshiaki MAKINO Judge Retirement by Shinzansha (1999)

"Indirect Infringement (Case of Frame of Footing Board)", Judicial Precedent of Design Law-Memorial of Eiji SAEGUSA and Etsushi KOTANI's Sixtieth Birthday by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (1999)

"What is a material in this Editing Literally Work", Judicial Precedent of Copyright Law-Memorial of Ryuichi MURABAYASHI's Seventieth Birthday by Tokyo Nunoi Shuppan (2001)

"Significance of Public Known and Confidentiality", 100 Selection of Judicial Precedents of Patent (3rd Edition), Additional Volume of JURIST by Yuhikaku (2002)

"Success and Failure of Indirect Infringement and Selling and Exporting Goods to Abroad", Trend of Patent Infringement Trail/Masashige OBA by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (2002)

"Invention and a Law of Nature", Theory and Practice of Intellectual Property Laws vol. 1 "Patent Law [ I ]" Toshiaki MAKINO etc. by Shinnippon-Hoki (2007)

"Feature of Effectively Protecting Configuration of Goods under Unfair Competition Litigation" [ Trademark Law and Unfair Competition Law] /Toshiaki MAKINO by Shinnippon-Hoki (2007)

(Book, (Joint Authorship))
"Domain Name Disputes", by Koubundou (2001)

Main Lectures

"Indirect Theory about Patent Law", Licensing Executives Society Japan (2001)

"Revision of Patent Law, Trademark Law and other Industrial Property Laws", The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (2002)

"Unfair Competition Prevent Law and Protection of Trade Secret", Japan Federal Bar Association (2003)

(Coursework)"Analysis for Precedents of Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Law", Japan Intellectual Property Association(1971-)
(Coursework)"Trade Mark Infringement", Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (1971-)