Japanese Patent Attorney and Principal of Okuyama & Sasajima International President of the AIPPI and Chairman of the Nippon Intellectual Property Translation Association President of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association, 2011-2013 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Chicago B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Waseda University Has held many positions on Japanese government committees, including the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, 2013-2017, to utilize intellectual property of academia and industry, organized by Prime Minister Abe Founder and president of the Tokyo Wine Society Author of numerous books in Japanese and in English, including Patent Litigation in Japan, published by the Japan Patent Office, and Patent Protection for Second Medical Uses, in the AIPPI Law Series, and has contributed many articles to “Winds from Japan”, the English newsletter of the Licensing Executives Society of Japan, and many other publications