WATANABE Tomoko
Patent Attorney / Guest Professor of Yokohama National University
Founder and Representative of Watanabe Tomoko International Patent Office
Specific Infringement Lawsuit Counsel (as registered in Supplementary Note)
History
Operated in association with Nozomi Patent Office (January 2013 to present)
Established Watanabe Tomoko International Patent Office (February 2012 to present)
Registered as Specific Infringement Lawsuit Counsel in Supplementary Note (January 2004)
Worked at Hidaka International Patent Office (July 1997-February 2012)
Registered as Patent Attorney (July 1997)
Worked as Examiner of Japan Patent Office (April 1990-July 1997)
Joined Japan Patent Office as Technical Officer at Ministry of International Trade and Industry (April 1986)
Graduated from Nihon University College of Art with B.A. in Visual Communication Design (March 1986)
Other Activities
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Part-time lecturer at Musashino Art University (April 2021 to present)
- Guest Professor of Yokohama National University (April 2020 to present)
- Member of the Intellectual Property Committee Industrial Structure Council (April 2016 to present)
- Member of Advisory Council for Infringement Determination in Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (April 2015 to present)
- External Auditor of Bridgestone Corporation (March 2012 to March 2016)
Special lecturer at Tokyo University of Science, Professional Graduate School, Department of Master of Intellectual Property (April 2007 to March 2019) - Part-time lecturer at Yokohama National University (October 2014 to present)
- Lecturer at Ochanomizu University of open seminar “Intellectual Market”(October 2012 to October 2014)
- Lecturer at Open University of Japan (April 2011 to present)
- Part-time lecturer at Kuwasawa Design School (April 2001 to present)
- Part-time lecturer at Kyushu Sangyo University (April 2000 through March 2009)・Member of Advisory Board of Program Development Project for Human Resources Training for Global Intellectual Property Management in National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training (April 2015 to present)
- Investigator for Unfair Competition Law in Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (April 2012 through March 2015)
- Interim Member of Advisory Council for Industrial Property Rights (April 2013 through March 2014)
- Member of 2010 Research and Study Committee Regarding Problems with Industrial Property Rights System in Japan Patent Office: Research and Study Committee Concerning Use of Industrial Property Rights System for Creating and Maintaining Brand Focusing on Design in Company Business Strategy. “Collection of Model Cases of Excellent Japanese Products Resulting from Design Strategy and Use of Intellectual Property Rights” drawn up on the basis of the above report (issued by Japan Patent Office under Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, December 2011)
(currently available on website of Japan Patent Office) - Member of 2009 Research and Study Committee Regarding Problems with Industrial Property Rights System in Japan Patent Office: Research and Study Committee Concerning How Design System Encourages Activities for Creating Diversified Designs
- Panelist of International Design Protection Seminar held by United States Patent and Trademark Office, Office for Harmonization in the International Market, the Japan Patent Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of P.R. China (held in Guangdong, China, 2009)
- Judge for Stationery of the Year for 2007 and 2008 held by All Japan Stationery Association
- Member of the Copyright Law Association of Japan
- Member of the Intellectual Property Association of Japan
Publications
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 7 - The essence of self-assertion - in DESIGN PROTECT No. 129 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2021
Author of “ Bilingual Japanese / English, Intellectual Property Rights Guidebook” published by Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and innovation (JIPII), May 2020
The book that participated as a member of the editorial board titled:WIPO “How to Explore ideas -Using Intellectual Property-” published by Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and innovation (JIPII), April 2020
Paper in Tokkyo Kenkyu No. 69,“Revised Design Act of 2019: Promotion of Design Use for Advancing Innovations and Building Brands” published by National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training, March 2020
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 6 -Sustainable Society related Design- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 125 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2020
Comment: “Revised Design Act of 2019: Expansion of the Scope of Protection, Design for Building. Interior and GUI” in Nikkei Design, published by Nikkei Business Publications Inc., January 2020
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 6 -Sustainable Society related Design- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 125 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2019
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 5 -New world of Art by Projection mapping- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 121 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2018
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 4 -Designer Maker User- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 117 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2017
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 3 -Paul Smith- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 113 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2017
Contribution to column: Message Conveyed by Design August 2016 -Design of Interior by Le Corbusier- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 125 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) by distribution of Email, August 2016
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design 2 -Highline in New York- in DESIGN PROTECT No. 109 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2016
Paper in Tokkyo Kenkyu No. 57, “The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs ~Outlines of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement and the Revision of the Japanese Design Law in 2014~” published by National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training, March 2015 （Abstract：Outlines of the “Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs” that comes into effect in May this year in Japan and the outline of the revision of the Japanese Design Law of 2014 and the accession of this act will be explained together with the matters that require attention for the use of the system as compared to the PCT and the Madrid Protocol.）
Article: “New judgment of Industrial design which is covered by Copyright” in Nikkei Design, published by Nikkei Business Publications Inc., May 2015
Article:“It is now Possible to Register Sounds and Colors as Trademarks- Revisions in the Trademark and Design Laws” in Nikkei Design, published by Nikkei Business Publications Inc., March 2015
Contribution to magazine column: Message Conveyed by Design in DESIGN PROTECT No. 105 (commentary regarding intellectual property rights) published by Japan Design Protection Association, March 2015
”Method for Protecting Design Valu” (Chapter 12) and “Intellectual Property Rights for Enhancing Competitiveness of Design” (Chapter 13) in Industry and Design, textbook for Open University of Japan published by NHK Publishing, Inc., March 2012
Co-author of “Intellectual Property Rights and Design Textbook” published by Nikkei Business Publications Inc., December 2009
Serial Publications “Intellectual Property: Short Seminar” and “Intellectual Property News Comment” in Nikkei Design, published by Nikkei Business
Publications Inc., August 2004-March 2011
“Intellectual Property Strategy for Supporting the Competitiveness of Design” in Hitotsubashi Business Preview, published by Toyo Keizai Inc., September 2007
Co-author of “Intellectual Property Law Basic Case Guide” published by Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd., April 2005
“The Fourth Lecture: Current State of and Problems with Design System-Design Protection and Use of Design System as Product Strategy” in “20 Lectures on Intellectual Property Rights-Current State of and Problems with Creation, Protection and Use of Intellectual Property,” published by the Economy and Industry Research Committee, December 2004
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