Shinichiro TANAKA

Present Status

Legal Section

Present Post

Partner of Nakamura & Partners
Attorney at Law and Patent Attorney

Main Practices

Intellectual Property Law; Entertainment Media; Antimonopoly Law, Unfair Competition Prevention Law; International Transaction Law

Languages

Japanese, English and German

Education and History

Passed the BAR Examination in 1982;
Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Hitotsubashi University (LL.B.);
Graduated from the Legal Training Institute in 1985;
Registered for The Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Daini Tokyo Bar Association in 1985;
Joined Nakamura & Partners in 1985;
Registered for Japan Patent Attorneys Association in 1987;
Studied at University of Munich (LL.M., 1994);
Guest researcher at Max-Planck-Institute für ausländisches und internationales Patent-, Urheber-und Wettbewerbsrecht in 1994;
Partner of Nakamura & Partners in 1995

Membership and Activities

Daini Tokyo Bar Association (1985-)
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations (1985-)
Japan Patent Attorneys Association (1987-)
AIPPI·JAPAN
INTA

Main Articles

(written in Japanese)
"Zivilprozeßrecht und Schutz von Betriebs-geheimnissen in Japan", Theorien zum Recht des geistigen Eigentums und Wettbewerbsrechts - Festschrift Zum 70. Geburtstag von Professor Friedrich-Karl Beier by Dai-ichi Hoki (1996)

"Litigation with respect to the Right to obtain a Patent", Practice of Civil Industrial Law Intellectual Property Law by Gyosei (1998)

"Comparison regarding Theory of Equivalency among in Japan, in U.K. and in Germany", Series of Modern Judicial Law-Intellectual Property Law by Shinnippon-Hoki (1999)

"Parallel Import and Trademark Infringement", Intellectual Property Law Program for Legal Practice (L&T No.32) by Minjiho Kenkyukai (2006)

Main Lectures

"Regal Problems Regarding Using Marks on The Internet", VeriSign Japan K.K. (2002)

"Recent Court Decisions regarding Claim Interpretation in Patent Infringement Cases", AIPPI (2004)

"Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Case", Tokai University Extension Center (2003-)

"Ability Guarantee Workshop", Japan Attorneys Association (2004-2005)