Abe, Ikubo & Katayama

Intellectual Property Department

Partner

・Itoh & Company (Patent Firm) (1983)

・Registered as patent attorney (1985)

・Joined Dow Chemical Japan (1988-1990: Worked at Dow Corporate Patent Dept. in U.S.A.) (1987)

・Promoted to General Manager, Patent Dept., Dow Chemical Japan (1989)

・Joined Pfizer Japan as International Patent Manager, Patent Dept.  (1993)

・Promoted to General Manager, IP Dept., Pfizer Japan (1995)

・Joined Abe, Ikubo & Katayama (2001)

・Qualified as patent attorney admitted to practice intellectual property infringement litigation (2005)

・Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China (2010-2011)

Japanese and English

・Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA)

・International Activity Center of JPAA

・AIPPI

・IP Committee of Japan Science and Technology Agency

・Institution of Professional Engineers (Biotechnology), Japan (ex-member of PIPA,JIPA and JPMA)

・Graduated from Sophia University with BS in Applied Chemistry (1983)

・LLB, Chuo University (2003)

・LLM, George Mason University School of Law (2022)