1993
BS in Information Engineering, University of Tohoku
1993-2003
Sharp Corporation
2004-2006
Panasonic Corporation
2004
Registered as patent attorney
2006-2013
Nakamura & Partners
2008
Qualified as patent attorney admitted to practice intellectual property infringement litigation
2013
Joined Abe, Ikubo & Katayama
2023
Graduate School of Law, Kobe University (Ph.D.)
- Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA)
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- Japan Association of Industrial Property Law
Yoshimasa Nakamura works in wide areas of intellectual property including both IP prosecution and IP litigation. He has a wealth of experience in foreign and domestic patent application practice as well as procedures for patent oppositions and invalidation trials. Furthermore, he has been involved in a variety of patent lawsuits covering the areas of electronics, communications, and computer science. For the client, he can optimize his IP litigation experience and skill into IP prosecution, while also optimizing his IP prosecution experience and skill into succesful IP litigation.