Eiichiro Hino (Mr.) studied Life and Cognitive Sciences at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. Upon graduation, he passed the Japanese Bar Examination and attended the Legal Training and Research Institute. His main areas of practice are patent law, trademark law, design law, unfair competition prevention law, international trade law, IT law, dispute resolution, arbitration, litigation, and invalidation trials. He has particular expertise in the area of patent litigation, including a successful case before the Supreme Court of Japan, in which the court ruled for the first time in the field of pharmaceuticals that patent infringement was found based on the doctrine of equivalents. He also has extensive experience in conducting patent evaluations for patent pools (video compression, audio compression, optical discs, wireless power supply, etc.).
Membership and Activities:
Tokyo Bar Association (2008-)
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations (2008-)
Intellectual Property Committee (2015-)
Intellectual Property Lawyers Network (2008-)
Japan Patent Office
Trial and Appeal Practitioner Study Group (Patent-Machinery) (2018-2020, 2023-2024）
Candidates for expert advisors stipulated in Article 69-5, etc. of the Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance (2020-)
(written in Japanese)
“Overview of Judgments in Trademark and Unfair Competition Cases in 2010” (joint authorship) by JPAA (Patent; 4/2011)
“Overview of Judgments in Trademark and Unfair Competition Cases in 2011” (joint authorship) by JPAA (Patent; 7/2012)
“Analysis of Recent Court Precedents on Conscious Exclusion in the Doctrine of Equivalent” (joint authorship), Tokyo Bar Association Legal Practice Research No. 30 by Tokyo Bar Association (2015)
“Domestic Exhaustion (2)” Mr. Yoichiro Komatsu's 70th Birthday Commemorative Paper Collection: Practical Aspects of Patent Infringement Disputes – Resolution Methods Based on Case Law and Future Prospects by Seirin Shobo (2018)
“Recent Trends in Standard Essential Patents”, Law & Technology Supplemental Issue Vol. 4 – The Front Line of Settlement Disputes by Civil Law Workshop (2018)
“Standard Essential Patent and Licensing for Video Image Compression Technology”, Intellectual Property Management Vol. 71, No. 2 by JIPA (2020)
"Case Where Damages Were Awarded for Sharing Newspaper Articles on an Internal Intranet (Intellectual Property High Court Decision of June 8, 2023, Court Website)”, Business Law in May by CHUOKEIZAI-SHA．INC．(2024)
“Recent Trends in Criminal Cases Involving Trade Secret Infringement – Focusing on the Sapporo High Court Decision of July 6, 2023”, AIPPI･JAPAN Journal Vol.69 No.12 by AIPPI･JAPAN (2024)
AIPPI 229th Case Study “Recent Trends in Criminal Cases Involving Trade Secret Infringement” (2020)
