Minoru NAKAMURA

Present Status

Legal Section

Present Post

Partner of Nakamura & Partners
Attorney at Law and Patent Attorney

Main Practices

Intellectual Property Law; Antimonopoly Law, Unfair Competition Prevention Law; Litigation, Arbitration, Dispute Resolution; International Transaction Law

Languages

Japanese and English

Education and History

Passed the BAR Examination in 1949;
Graduated from Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo (LL.B.);
Graduated from the Legal Training Institute in 1952;
Registered for The Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Daini Tokyo Bar Association and Japan Patent Attorneys Association in 1952;
Joined Nakamatsu International Patent & Law Office (current Nakamura & Partners) in 1952;
Partner of Nakamura & Partners in 1963;
Representative Partner of Nakamura & Partners in 1974;
Partner of Nakamura & Partners after resignation as a Representative Partner in 1993

Main Prizes

A Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese Government in 2010

Membership and Activities

Daini Tokyo Bar Association (1952-)
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations (1952-)
  President, Committee on Intangible Property Right Institutions (1979-1981)
Japan Patent Attorneys Association (1952-)
AIPPI
  International Ex-Co member of AIPPI headquarters (1966-1991)
  Director of AIPPI Japanese Group (1983-1991)
Japan Trademark Association (1988-)
  President (1988-1995)
ECTA (1988-)
ITMA Overseas Member (1995-)
The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (1998-)
  Executive Director (1998-)
INTA
FICPI
Japan Jurists Association
Japan Association of Industrial Property Law

Main Articles

(written in English)
"Intellectual Property Law in Japan", The Law of Commerce in Japan by Prentice Hall (1992)

(written in Japanese)
"Enforcement of Rights under Patent Law and Antitrust Law", Problems of International Industrial Property Laws by AIPPI·Japan (1976)

"Certain Issues Concerning Patent Rights Protection by Patent Application in Foreign Language under Patent Cooperation Treaty", The Problems Concerning Internationalization of Patent System by Japan Association of Industrial Property Law (1980)

"Conversion of Application and Application of Exception to Loss of Novelty", JURIST Additional Volume by Yuhikaku (1985)

"Some Questions Concerning Selection Invention", The Problems Concerning Patent Infringement Litigation by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (1986)

"International Trends of Doctrine of Equivalence", AIPPI Bulletin No.13 by AIPPI·Japan (1987)

"Provision of Original Idea Draft - The Movie I Want to Be a Shellfish Case", JURIST Additional Vol. No.91 Chosakuken Hanrei Hyakusen (100 Copyright Precedent Cases) by Yuhikaku (1987), JURIST Additional Vol. No.128 Chosakuken Hanrei Hyakusen 2nd edition by Yuhikaku (1994), JURIST Additional Vol. No.157 Chosakuken Hanrei Hyakusen 3rd edition by Yuhikaku (2001)

"On Quotation in Literary Work", by Japan Writer's Association (2006)

Main Lectures

"Legal Risk Management-Intellectual Property Right", Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (1992)

"Corporate Legal Practices, Extension Center", Waseda University (1995)

"Practices of Commercial Arbitrations", Licensing Executives Society Japan (1996)

"Some Issues Concerning Publication of Literary Work", The Copyright Law Association of Japan (2002)

"Protection of Intellectual Property Right in the Future", Central Research Institute of Intellectual Property, The Japan Writer's Association (2003)

"The Essence of Copyright Protection - from the viewpoint of lawyer, who is also the author of literary works", Center for Professional Legal Education and Research, Waseda University (2009)