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Partner
Admitted to bar |
2008, Japan |
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Languages |
Japanese and English |
Contact |
TEL : +81-3-6889-7206 |
Practice Areas |
IP Disputes, IP Transactions, Disputes in Foreign Jurisdictions, Pharmaceutical and Health Care, Civil and Commercial Disputes, General Corporate, IT and Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Sport |
Biography
Kenji Tosaki is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on dispute resolution. He specializes in intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation, and he also covers the area of TMT including data protection matters.
In the area of intellectual property litigation, he has been handling both IP infringement litigations and IP invalidation litigations before the IP High Court, the Supreme Court, District Courts and Japan Patent Office. His IP expertise includes a wide variety of IP matters (patents, copyrights, trademarks, design rights, unfair competition and trade secrets) in many areas, such as pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics, social games, medical devices and chemicals. He also provides pre-litigation counseling, including infringement/invalidity analysis.
In the area of complex commercial litigation, he gives advice on matters such as securities law and cross-border contract.
He is a member of the Japan Association of Industrial Property Law, the Copyright Law Association of Japan and AIPPI Japan (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property). He is also an active member of TechLaw Group (http://techlaw.org/), which is a global network of technology savvy law firms.
1996 | The University of Tokyo (LL.B ) |
1998-2000 | Judge of Tokyo District Court |
2000-2002 | Judge of Hachioji Branch of Tokyo District Court |
2001-2002 | Visiting Scholar, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law |
2002-2004 | Deputy Director, Planning and Legal Division, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Financial Services Agency |
2004-2004 | Judge of Tokyo District Court |
2004-2005 | Deputy Director, Office for Privitization of Japan Post, Cabinet Secretariat |
2005-2006 | Judge of Tokyo District Court (Intellectual Property Division) |
2006-2008 | Judge of Takamatsu District Court |
2008- | Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
2010-present | Member of Policy Commission, Type II Financial Instruments Firms Association |
April-September 2011 | Adjunct Lecturer, Sophia Law School |
2013-present | Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
2016-2017 | Chairman, Panel of Experts of Research regarding IP Strategy of Field in Regenerative Medicine, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development |
2017-2018 | Committee Member, Research regarding IP Strategy and Optimization of Practical Use in Biopharmaceutical, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development |
2017-2018 | Chairman, Panel of Experts of Research regarding the handling of experimental research data in deriving achievements in the medical field, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development |
2018-2019 | Committee Member, Research regarding IP contracts, etc., for deriving investigator-initiated clinical trial data, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development |
2020- | Committee Member, Standing Committee on Enforcement, AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) |
September 20, 2019 | NO&T Seminars | |
June 13, 2019 | NO&T Seminars | US Patent Practice Seminar |
October 30, 2018 | NO&T Seminars | |
February 26, 2018 | NO&T Seminars | "US Patent Litigation ‒ Recent Developments, Trends and Best Practices" |
January 29, 2018 | Seminars | Outline of Civil Trial for Intellectual Property, Case Study |
May 19, 2017 | NO&T Seminars | |
March 24, 2017 | Seminars | |
November 15, 2016 | Seminars | A Global Look at the Liability and Defenses of Social Media Sites and Other Network Services |
April 26, 2016 | NO&T Seminars | |
October 16, 2015 | Seminars |
October, 2020 | Articles | The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Copyright 2021 - Chapter 9 Japan |
June, 2020 | Articles | The Legal 500: 4th Edition Intellectual Property Country Comparative Guide - Japan The Legal 500 (online) |
July, 2019 | Articles | The Legal 500: 3rd Edition Intellectual Property Comparative Guide - Japan The In-House Lawyer (online) |
April, 2013 | Articles | The 2013 Guide to Japan 11th Edition A Supplement to International Financial Law Review, April 2013 |
January 13, 2021 | Awards | NO&T receives high evaluation in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 |
April 4, 2019 | Awards | High evaluation received in the 2020 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |
April 6, 2018 | Awards | High evaluation received in the 2019 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |
March 3, 2017 | Awards | High evaluation received in the 2018 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |
February 29, 2016 | Awards | High evaluation received in the 2017 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |
May 28, 2015 | Awards | High evaluation received in the 2016 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |
October 17, 2014 | Awards | High evaluation from Best Lawyers in the Fifth Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |